71 Quotes by William Bennett

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.