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

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.

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.

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

I really enjoyed judges critiques because I can always grow and improve from that. I don't think any of the judges are intimidating.

And that's the bottom line, cuz Stone Cold said so!

If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.