We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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.

Prayer is a sacred-communication.

There is no point at which you can say "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!