A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

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.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.