This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.