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.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.