“We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.”

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

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

“Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.”

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

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

“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”