The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.

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

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

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.

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 human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.