William Bennett Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”

“America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.”

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

“Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.”

“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.”