We may define therapy as a search for value.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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

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

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

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