We must be kind to our neighbours and responsible towards Mother Nature.

For that reason, the different chapters of the Secretary General's report should be treated as an ensemble.

We need to take our responsibilities seriously, Don't get me wrong it's not like we don't have comedy in the Middle East.

And what they showed me is that, well, firstly, it's at least to say odd that we don't treat these pigs as absolute kings and queens.

We should also move from words to action and, last but not least, treat women as full partners rather than as a special category.

This attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly.

They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others, because, as it turns out, we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly.

For his part, Aristotle prefers to see slaves treated as children and to use not only orders but also recommendations, as the slave is capable of understanding reasons when they are explained.

Concern about how we treat farm animals is far from being limited to the small percentage of people who are vegetarians or even vegans eating no animal products at all.

If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.

And I hope you'll come with me on my basic premise that words matter, that they shape the way we understand ourselves, the way we interpret the world and the way we treat others.