Sometimes when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can. - Mitch Albom

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.