Quotes from Mitch Albom

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

There is a reason God limits man's days.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

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

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

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

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

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.