Tuesdays with Morrie

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

"The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people rest."

"Have you ever really listened to someone? Really listened?"

"Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do."

"When you come to visit, you're not sick. You're just my old friend Mitch."

"I have lots of relatives who won't talk to me anymore. That's their loss."

"You look at someone looking at you and see the world."

"We're all dying. Once I accepted that, I could actually hear what people were saying."

"I'm touched by people who care about me."

"The little things? There are nothing little about them."

"We put our stuff in safe deposit boxes and think we're going to take it with us."

"Age is no guarantee of maturity."

"I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life."

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

"So many people walk around with a meaningless existence."

"You cannot get bitter. You will just make yourself sick."

"The importance is in the person you have become."

"It's very important to have the things that take up your time, but equally important not to lose yourself in them."

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

"I feel alive when I'm talking to you."

"Being with dying people is like being in the presence of something holy."

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

"I want no flowers when I'm gone, and only an old-fashioned gravestone."

"You have to love people, truly love them."

"We're in such a hurry all the time."

"I'm going to die. And I'm not afraid."

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others."

"Money is not a substitute for tenderness."

"We laugh, we cry. We hurt. We do all these things. But in the end, we're just looking to be loved."

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