Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive."

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

"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."

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