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

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.