There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

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.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.