Morrie Schwartz

"There is no experience like having someone who loves you."

"Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth."

"The most important thing is knowing you're not alone."

"We all need people who will give us a challenge and keep us honest."

"Invest in the human family. Invest in people."

"If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy."

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"Each person gets limited time on this earth. That's all."

"You have to say no to things to make room for the things that matter."

"The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die."

"I want to die alert and aware."

"We laugh, we cry. We recognize each other. That's humanity."

"You need someone to validate you. In the end, when we suffer, we suffer alone."

"The truth is, you can't out-think aging. There's no philosophical position that's going to keep you young."

"Accept what you are able to do and do it well."

"All I ever wanted was to bring attention to those who are ill and helpless."

"If you don't have the support and love and concern that you get from family and friends, then everything else is not important."

"I fear dying without that connection."

"We're all in this together, and if we don't help one another, who will?"

"Make the choice yourself to be here and be fully engaged."

"The relationship is what it is about. That's what matters in the end."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong-minded to not buy into it."

"When you go to work, you are really going to be working for other people, on the strength of their company."

"So you think you're going to travel around the world? Forget it. You're going to be so strapped for cash."

"Don't let go. Don't ever think you're going to be replaced."

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

"We all need each other. I always tell people, don't assume."

"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."

"There is no experience like having the people you love around you and telling you that you matter."

"Half this country is trying to tell the other half how to live."