Mitch Albom Quotations

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

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

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

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

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have