Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

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.

When you are inspired, there is little you won’t attempt. Find what inspires you, and keep it around and with you always.

We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

The thorn keeps us from over-inflating

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.