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.

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.

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.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

Get hurt in a fight... got to keep going... Heart and mind, they kind of go hand in hand.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.