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.

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.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves!

Life goes on with or without you!

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.