To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

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.

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

I'm not a big birthday guy I never have been.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.