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

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

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.