The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.