“Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop." - C.S. Lewis

"He taught me on that trip how to navigate by the sun and the stars with a sextant. As I look back, it seems to me one of the most fundamental skills a father can teach a son: finding out where you are, using the tools of your ancestors." - Christopher Buckley, re: his father

"If children are hardwired to connect, and if the current ecology of childhood is leading to a weakening of connectedness and therefore to growing numbers of suffering children, building and renewing authoritative communities is arguably the greatest imperative that we face as a society." - per the Commission on Children at Risk, Hardwired to Connect