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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

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

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.