Mitch Albom (b. 1958)

Mitchell David Albom is an American author, sports journalist, talk show host and philanthropist. As of 2021, his books are reported to have sold 40 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition as a sports journalist early on in his writing career, Albom turned to writing inspirational stories and themes—a preeminent early one being Tuesdays with Morrie.

Quotes

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Life has to end, love doesn't.
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Hate is a curved blade, and the harm that we do to others is also harm we do to ourselves.