A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

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.

Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

To reach the high notes in life, you must open your heart to sing.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.