I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

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

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.