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

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.

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

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

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

Perceptions may not be true, but its true for YOU!

Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.

Helping hands are better than Praying Lips

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.