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

— Mitch Albom

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. Furthermore, you can’t lie to them. Furthermore, you can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

— Mitch Albom

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

— Mitch Albom

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

— Mitch Albom

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. Furthermore, you can't wait until sixty-five.

— Mitch Albom

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here... Death ends life, not a relationship.

— Mitch Albom

You must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it

— Mitch Albom

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

— Mitch Albom