Barba Bush

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

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

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

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

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

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

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy-that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.

True friends stab you in the front.

I probably didn’t handle things as diplomatically as I should.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five’s a charm?

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

A friend is a second self.

If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing.

If I’m not interested in a woman, I’m straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!’