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

Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

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

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.