I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.