George H. W. Bush

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Losing is tough.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Children have helped me a lot.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Man is what he believes.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.