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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

I like being a Girl Scout.

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

I am an aging Girl Scout.

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.