Mitch Albom

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Love each other or die.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.