And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

我不想说陈词滥调，但我确实相信一切都有原因。

心理学必须植根于有机体为生存而斗争的现实中。

The mind is a biological problem-solving device.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

释义：当与敌人作战时，如果敌方的将领愚钝，不懂得随机应变，就可以用利益来诱使他们做出错误的决定，从而达到战胜敌人的目的。