Of course animals have a personality and emotions.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

Children can change the world.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.