Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.
There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
People are only mean when they are threatened.
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.