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

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

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.

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.