A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

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 avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.

I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things.

I don't understand why Italians should be bound to Brussels's choices without being able to express themselves through a referendum.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Every man is of importance to himself.

Love without evidence is stalking.