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

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

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

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

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.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.