One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

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.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!