We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

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

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.