The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

Men build society and society builds men.

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

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

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?