Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

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.

Adversity tests the limit of our strength.

After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

Love is not about others

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.