What a man can be, he must be. This need we may 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.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?

-- Charles de Gaulle

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-- John F. Kennedy

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

-- John F. Kennedy

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

-- Nikita Khrushchev

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.

-- Abraham Maslow

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

-- Albert Ellis