You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can 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.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

We may define therapy as a search for value.