If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

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.

Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.

Love is so complicated, that is why it is love.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.