Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

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.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

And The Monster Said "Yes But No Being That Can Cause Such Destruction Without Remorse Can Consider Itself A Person

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.