1,065 Quotes by Mitch Albom

People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden under a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.

He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.

The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks. Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about the family the way we care about our own.

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

What will you do?" Eva would ask him. "I don't know," he would say. He ruled out law, because he didn't like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine because he couldn't take the sight of blood. "What will you do?" It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher.

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.