The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing