Morrie Schwartz

"If I could be a fly on the wall of heaven, I would see what my life meant."

"Maybe it's not just the outdoors that inspires you but the experience."

"You're my window to the world now."

"I know all the people who are important to me. That's my triumph."

"Detach yourself. That's what I have learned."

"I'm still here. I'm still fighting."

"This is it. This is living."

"I have no use for the things that money can buy."

"We do get better at being human as we get older."

"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

"I'm going to embrace this experience completely."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you know what the answer is? The answer is: in addition to all the things you're doing, you can devote yourself to loving other people with all your heart and soul, and when you do that, when you do that as a life's work, which is a task that takes all your efforts, all your heart, all your soul, to do that, then that's a life well lived."

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

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, trying to keep up with the Joneses, all this kind of thing."

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

"Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness."

"Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other."

"When you go into a accepting frame of mind, you can accomplish a lot more."

"The fact is, you don't get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live."

"So you think you're in control? But you're not."

"I'm an old man. And I'm dying. And all I want is to be surrounded by loved ones."

"A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart."

"Mitch, I'm going to tell you something. Are you listening?"

"This is how you start the process of learning to live."

"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others."

"In the beginning, there was only one problem. In the end there is only one solution."

"We are not taught to die in this country. We are taught to ignore death."

"When you're in bed for twenty-three and a half hours a day, you better make damn sure you're there by choice."

"You have to give before you can receive."

"I suppose there's a time to be quiet and a time to be loud."