Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.