We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.