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.

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.

My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

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

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

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

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.