A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

Blessed are they who can carryA smile on their faceThey are ones who have foundInner peace in life’s mace

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are hate-crime people.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Most anything I've ever set my mind to, I could accomplish.

I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.