Mitch Albom

"However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident."

"It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."

"What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.'Fear?' he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?'That's big.'Yes. But there's something else.'What else?He leaned forward.'Being forgotten,' he whispered."

"Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them."

"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."

"When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness."

"It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done."

"Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?"

"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."

"Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window."

"This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have."

"Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, 'Do you think those pills work?'Not like that, I said.'No,' he agreed. 'Not like that."