Barba Bush

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.

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

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

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.

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

My grandma is probably the only person on this planet that I still remember their home number by heart

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

My daughter hasn’t seen me with anybody in five years. I’m very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it’s real. I don’t want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring, quite often the hard way.

My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy.

My son has a big Christmas problem – what do you buy for a father who has everything and you’re using it?

I’ve been a loner all the time throughout my life… I haven’t been the best father… Many times… my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

Siblings – the definition that comprises love, strife, competition and forever friends.

There was a lot of charm in just living in a big family compound of a house. My two uncles, who were into jazz, lived in the basement, and one of them, Uncle Peter, taught me my first songs on the ukulele.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.