George H. W. Bush

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

I know the sun rises in the eat and sets in the west, that I am ten fingers and ten toes and ten thousand reasons short of explaining what it is I can’t explain to you. And I know that I will always love you in certainties.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.