“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”

“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.”

“Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense”

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”

“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is sufficiently unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth. We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness as being our chance for "making the growth choice rather than the fear choice.”