Abraham Harold Maslow ( MAZ-loh; April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School...
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos