Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

by Mitch Albom

The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.

Hope is critical. It is almost mandatory to soldier through troubled times. Conversely, there is no affliction like hopelessness. I believe it is worse than anything that strikes the flesh.

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” —Dr. John Trainer

“as terrible as I felt, I took comfort in having something I could cry to, a power to whom

I could shout, ‘Why?’ It is still better than having nothing to turn to at all.”

What we carry defines who we are.

And the effort we make is our legacy.