Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug.

You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.

Our destinations are Booleans – we reach them or we don’t – but our journeys are spectrums, because there are so many paths we can take to our destination that make getting there that much better.

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

Halloween without kids is tremendously bad.

[People] are tired of looking at what happens, they are tired of us having our... let's say finest and brightest not being involved in the most important decisions, and being someplace else.

I love doing voice-over. It's so fun.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

You can't build a foundation on lies.