"War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities."

“Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.”

“To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.”

“The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.”

“Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement-the art of living.”

“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.”

Source : "The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4". Book edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872 ("Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter), 2008.

“A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.”

“The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.”

“I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.”