Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

This universe was created for the love, by the love, and with love.

The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!

The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

I love playing sport.

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.