People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony]. . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.