We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.