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

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

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

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.