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

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

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

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

School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

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.

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