Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

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.

The only performance that matters is what Jesus Christ did at the Cross - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

Regardless of the situation at hand, the answer is always found through your inner peace.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

People have never lost what they think they have.

I just think women are funnier than men.

Never compromise and sell yourself short.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.

It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.