We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The beginning is always today.

There are only three colors ten digits and seven notes it's what we do with them that's important.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences