But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

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

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

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.