A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

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

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl

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

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.