No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

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

People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.