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

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

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

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.