I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state -- you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades -- you might not go to Harvard -- but you went to college.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

What's wrong with being number 2?

She explains that lost love is still love.Life has to end but love doesn't.

Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.
There was no known cure.

Life has to end. Love doesn't.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

The little things, I can obey. The big things--how we think, what we value--those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone--or any society--determine those for you.