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 against your legs and jumping into your lap.
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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 not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
