False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

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 funny thingaboutadvice is, we always tellothersthe thingswecannotreally doourselves.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

I have kids who buy tickets for my show... How could I take their money and ignore their problems?

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem.

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.