Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

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.

To see time and life correctly, you must begin to access life as seconds, as minutes and as hours.

When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!

In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.