The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

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.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.

'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.