What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

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

It is as if Freud supplied us the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

-- Hypatia

Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.

-- Xunzi

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

-- Simone de Beauvoir

We are our choices.

-- Jean-Paul Sartre