Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

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

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

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

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.