莫里（Morrie）已成为想法的闪电棒。他对黄色垫，信封，文件夹，废纸的想法记下来。他写了关于与死亡的阴影生活的一口大小的哲学：接受您能够做的事情和无法做的事情；接受过去的过去，而不否认或丢弃它；学会原谅自己并原谅他人；不要以为来参与为时已晚。
(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 you are able to do and what you are not able to do; Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it; Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others; Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.)