"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 nee… - 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.

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.

"If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

"I believe in being fully present."
"That means you should be with the person you're with." ...
"I am talking to you. I am thinking about you."