Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

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

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

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

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.