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

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

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

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.