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 spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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