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.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

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

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

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.

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.