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

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.

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.

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.

It's just a bad day, not a bad life.

Your memory is a monster

I don’t know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I’m not one of them, ” I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)“You are. You just don’t know yet.” (Victor)

We're gonna have a much better health care plan at much less money.

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.

If you don't know what else to do, drink beer.