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

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

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