Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important.

Justice is the virtue we 'd rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.

Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.

Let me love and feel the joy of life.

Don’t allow people to come in and out of your life when it only benefits them.

Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.