George H. W. Bush

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Debates, I hate.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

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

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.