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

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?