Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

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

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

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".