As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

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

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.