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

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

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 human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.