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.

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.

The sap is nourish from the root.

Your inner voice and the spiritual guidance...will lead you to your goal.

It's the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go.

I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.

I love to hit people. I love to.

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.