Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

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

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

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.