Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

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

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be? Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. Morrie Schwartz