A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. You can't run two at once, substituting back and forth.Sticking with your family is...

A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner.Mom,guess what ? she squealed waving the drawing .her mother...

But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter...

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.

You had many more years, he said.I didn't want them.But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer toyour prayer. To deny that is to deny the most...

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

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...

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word divorce came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant divide. In truth, it comes from divertere, which means to divert.I believe...

Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.

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