In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.