Barba Bush

Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.