When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.