Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.