Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

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.

If you do not understand yourself, you will never understand the world around. The biggest world is within, outside views are our perceptual creation.

The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.