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.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

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

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

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

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.