The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

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

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.

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.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.