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

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.