Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

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.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

Language is also a place of struggle.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.