One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

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

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

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.