Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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

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

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.

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

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?