The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

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?

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.

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.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

This’ is not called a religion, ‘This’ is called a science (vignan). Religion keeps changing, science does not change.

A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing

I waited for her to nod before pacing while I bit my lip. That hurt, so I switched to biting my finger nail.

You can't build a strong personal brand by just posting status updates... people need more than that, they need valuable content, beyond updates and tweets.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)

People who say they read more write better.