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

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

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."

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.