The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

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.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.