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

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

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.