Barba Bush

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

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

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.

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.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen. So I’m always game for a good joke, and I’m not so formal in this role. There’s very little that we can’t do that people wouldn’t appreciate.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

I don’t write letters anymore.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.