When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

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

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

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.