Mitch Albom

"I realized there wasn't much time left."

"He had taught me something that day, without me even realizing it."

"Morrie proved that our culture was wrong about growing old."

"Sometimes I wonder how he did it—stay so engaged with life even as his body was shutting down."

"His pain seemed to lessen when he was teaching."

"I felt guilty for my time away, for my absence."

"There was something different about Morrie now—something peaceful despite everything."

"He was giving me a final gift in these lessons."

"I listened. I didn't argue. I didn't try to fix things."

"I carry him with me still."

"We put our heads down and keep moving forward, without stopping to ask why."

"Maybe it's not too late to learn."

"This book tour I'm on is agony. I haven't slept in days."

"I wanted to ask Morrie for the secret to life. Can you really boil it down?"

"I wanted to go back to where we started. To remember who I was before the world got hold of me."

"You know what my old professor said to me? He said, 'Mitch, I'm dying.' Well, I know you are, Professor, we're all dying. But he was different. He was dying consciously."

"I envy people who believe in something. I don't believe in anything anymore."

"There is no experience like having a teacher who cares about you."

"We live in such a quick-tempo world, and the Nightline visits seemed to fit perfectly into that."

"The thing about Morrie was that he was willing to invest in the relationship."

"It's so hard when confronted by a dying man to know what to do."

"The classroom was his domain, his kingdom."

"I wanted to go back to my childhood and reclaim my relationship with him."