It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

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.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

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

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

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