Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

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

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.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.