The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

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.

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

In the morning, I usually get up between 7:40 A.M. and 7:45 A.M., and then I'll brush my teeth, do my hair, and just throw on my leotard and my clothes and go to the kitchen.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.