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

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.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

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

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

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

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.