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

No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

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.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

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

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.