“An unprofitable company must not be doing work useful to society. Perhaps its products are lousy or maybe is badly run. In any case, the balance sheet is both a managerial and moral scorecard.”

“Learning a dance is not about imitating the dance steps perfectly. But it's about creating your own style using the dance steps that you imitate.”

“Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.”

“It is better to live one-shot loving and living your life to the fullest than live chapters hating and grudging.”

“Treat your friends equally, because if you don't, you don't see them as friends.”

“The most hardest thing to give up is the thing that you treasure the most.”

“Donate your time if you will just waste it.”