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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

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

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.

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