Abraham Maslow

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

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

"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."

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

"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."

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."

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

"What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in."

"Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege."