...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

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.

Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.