If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

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.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.