When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?