Quotes By Barbara Bush

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

I'm not a one-issue person.

I've done it all.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

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

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

My worst expectations never happened.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, well, I don't have a book, and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.