All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

Individual consciences are fine, but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

A psychologist once told me that, for a boy, being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.