English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

We are what we seem to be.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.