An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

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

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.