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

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

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.