life

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

"There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."

"Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'"

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

"In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back"and not "I love your back"before you continue the conversation."

"Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off"

"I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it."

"I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile."

"Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?"

"You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in..."

"Live to the point of tears."

"I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart"

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

"He’s right-handed, so I told him to draw his self-portrait with his left hand, because it’d look so ugly it’d look realistic. Since he’s a DC politician, I figured a little reality was needed in his life."

"If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it."

"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen."

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."