“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

“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. What a man can be, he must be”

“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.”

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”

“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”

“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.”