Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.