You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

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.

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.