“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

“Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.”

“Life is short. And when all is said and done, our relationships with Jesus Christ and each other are the only things that will matter.”

“Your first kiss isn’t as important as your last. The math test really didn’t matter. The pie really did. The stuff you’re good at and the stuff you’re bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for the people you love and the people you don’t—and the people who love you and the people who don’t. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people. Life is really, really short.”

“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”