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

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

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

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.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

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