Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

I am a tough guy.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

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

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

‚I’ll be back‘ always sounded a little girly to me.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

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’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.