No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights..

Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining hi….

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another..

Competition for status is a zero sum game.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people ….

Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes..