..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

I only think well when my mind is calm.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!