Tuesdays with Morrie

"You need someone to validate you."

"If you really want to know what people care about, don't listen to what they say. Watch what they do."

"The most important thing is feeling like you matter."

"So you know what I'm doing? I'm saying goodbye."

"When you're in bed, you're dead."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."

"Life is about making an impact on people. It's not about your job title."

"That's what I want to leave behind. Morrie's lessons, not Morrie."

"Most people walk around as if they are sleepwalking."

"Don't wait for the end of the year. Don't wait for any day but today."

"I don't think I'm afraid of dying anymore, Mitch."

"I think of myself now as a teacher in my final class."

"Money is not a substitute for tenderness and working in the garden is not a substitute for tenderness."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Have you ever really listened to someone? I mean really listened?"

"The little bird doesn't ask how it should fly."

"Mitch, you're not being very Buddhist about this."

"We're all going to die, and we're all terrified of it."

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

"Your school gives you the thing, but your happiness doesn't come from that."

"I wanted to be remembered. That was my only real desire."

"When you come to visit, we don't have to go anywhere or do anything."

"Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow."

"Because I am here, and I am dying, I am more alive than I have ever been."

"A little bird doesn't have to think about how to build a nest. It just does it."

"Accept what has happened is past. Do not repeat it in the future."

"We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country."

"I believe in being completely honest, that's what I always have done."

"You're afraid of the wrong things."

"The culture didn't encourage you to think about dying."