He's written 13 books detailing his compassionate, thoughtful answers to tough questions about love, religion, and human behaviour.
The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
Today, if you tell cynical investors or industrialists, climate change deniers, tobacco company executives and the like that they should be compassionate, they might answer that they can be compassionate on a personal level but that it is not their job.
He was stubborn but principled and compassionate, arriving at the answers more slowly than Morse but with less collateral damage to the feelings of others.
Answer: a kind, compassionate individual who has noticed that Uncle Derek or Cousin Alicia has had a terrible year and needs a bit of cheering up.
And in that they would lead us into a just and compassionate and a wise legislative answer.
When I asked Clarke's friends and colleagues to explain why she is so devoted to what she does, there was a uniform flatness to their answers: Clarke is deeply compassionate, and has always been that way.
The punitive "What was I thinking?" became the much more compassionate "What was I learning?" And the answer was: everything.
Always answer these accolades courteously, be compassionate toward those who have yet to be enlightened, but do not let their easy smiles or their fraudulent adulation lull you into complacency.
Wisely used for compassionate purposes, technology is part of the answer, and not itself the problem.
