Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

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

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

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.