The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.