The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
Affluence means influence.
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.