I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.