A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be he must be.

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.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.