George H. W. Bush Quotes

Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.

Nobody likes going to court.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at all at first, and then, when she fell at his feet and worshiped him, answered that he did not spend his time doctoring dogs? Would you like him as a family physician?

We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.