“I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn’t given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.”

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.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

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

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

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

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Action over worry. Action over fear. Action over anxiety!

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: ‘There is no God’ or ‘There is no money’?