The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

I absolutely love talking to all of my fans.

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

A solid giggle should do the trick.

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

Unpopular but right is what you're going for.