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.

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.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

I really hate pain. I'd pull my own soul out if it meant I could stop the pain.