life

"The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things."

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."

"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life."

"You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values."

"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

"When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding off in the getaway car."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite."

"I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all."

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."

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

"We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."

"The business of business is people, not products or services. Take care of the people, and the people will take care of you."

"There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance."

"You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life."

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."