Mitch Albom Quotes

I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete re...

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism...

Then why do we do so many bad things?He sighed. Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to...

There was no one she wanted to see more. There was no one she wanted to see less. Why? she whispered. Why are you here?The winds blew, he said.

Sacrifice, The Captain said. You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost.You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s suppo...

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

If the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, ?Mecca, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours- well maybe the problem is YOU

Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as too late in life.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the ne...

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teacher...

I made the wrong choice , I whispered. My mother shook her head.A child should never have to choose.

When he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?-Morrie