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

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

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

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.

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.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

People that want to control words will never ever try to break up, like, a fight on a subway. They will never confront an aggressive person on the bus. They prefer their fights to be easy.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.