Quote

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Mitch Albom

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
Radio Personality
Sportswriter
Writer
Trenton
New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
Mitchell David Albom
Money
Power
Comradeship
Substitute
Substitutes
Tenderness

More quotes by Mitch Albom

Image
The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down.
Mitch Albom
Image
Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
Mitch Albom
Image
I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz
Mitch Albom
Image
And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? Ah he smiled. A happiness you cannot find alone
Mitch Albom
Image
When hope is gone, time is punishment.
Mitch Albom
Image
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
Mitch Albom
Image
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
Mitch Albom
Image
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
Mitch Albom
Image
Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
Mitch Albom
Image
People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
Mitch Albom
Image
Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
Mitch Albom
Image
There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
Mitch Albom
Image
The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.
Mitch Albom
Image
With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
Mitch Albom
Image
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
Mitch Albom
Image
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
Mitch Albom
Image
Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.
Mitch Albom
Image
With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
Mitch Albom
Image
Don't get too attached to anything.
Mitch Albom
Image
I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.
Mitch Albom