But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

Faith isn't about doing. You are how you act not just how you believe.

Loyalty ruled this woman's soul, but loyalty needs a partner.

People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they...

You're giving them false hope. ...What is false about hope?

Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas. He jotted down his thoughts on yellow pads, envelopes, folders, scrap paper. He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: Accept what...

When he died, he took part of me with him . I was stuck after that

He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future ifyou didn't like it-and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.

Fairness does not govern life and death.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it

His plans never worked out. In time,he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance, that this was who he was and who he would always be, a man with sand in his...

Her divorced friends had made a pact not to leave each other alone on nights when loneliness had extra strength.

But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.

Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit know, deep down, that all lives intersect.

Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.

She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of...

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

We are Tuesday people

I prefer them broken.''Why is that?' Victor said.Dor looked at the grain of sand in his fingers.'Because I am the sinner who created them.

There are five people you meet in heaven, the Blue Man suddenly said. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For...

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is....

Perhaps death is the greatest equalizer

And a man without memories is just a shell.

In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord.

I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You...

Dying is not in synonymous with Useless

People are only mean when they're threatened and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about loosing...

As long as we can love eachother, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still here. All the memories are still there. You live...

This is what it said: In heaven, we can see you. . . . We can feel you. . . . We know your pain, your tears, but we feel no pain or tears ourselves. . . . There are no bodies here . . . there is no...

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material...