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.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

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

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.