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.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

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

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

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.