People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

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.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

Sometimes the person you fall for isn’t ready to catch you.

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.