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

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

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.