The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

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.

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.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

How are things on the edge of space?

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.