Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

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

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.