Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

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.

Nothing kills creativity so well as a big dose of negativity.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection

And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege....

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

One day I started cheating. After that, I started winning everything.