But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

— Mitch Albom

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

— Mitch Albom

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

— Mitch Albom

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

— Mitch Albom

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

— Mitch Albom

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calendar? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

— Mitch Albom

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

— Mitch Albom

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?"-Morris

— Mitch Albom

Doubt is how you find God

— Mitch Albom

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

— Mitch Albom