Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed behavior - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided