A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

What one can be, one must be!

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.