The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.

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.

A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive.

There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.

i can’t always tell what’s betterlong drivesin the star-spangled desertsor long walksalong winding tea gardens.

I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.