We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

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.

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

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

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

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.