Abraham Maslow

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

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

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

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.