Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.