It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

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.

Violence is essentially a confession of ultimate inarticulateness.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.