when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.