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

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.