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

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.

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.

We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

I love going out and doing new things.

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.