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

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.

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.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

It is money makes the mare to trot.

I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are.

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

Truth is pure awareness.

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.