B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

We’re cool for the summer.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

There is no reality, only perception.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

We teach people how to treat us.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.