FRANK ZAPPA

One can transcend blind adherence to social norm, while avoiding the pitfalls of its opposite extreme, nihilism. It is possible to find sufficient meaning in individual consciousness and experience.

We can be freed from social impositions without devolving into anarchy through individual...

It says that humor comes from a few necessary conditions:

1. There needs to be a norm violation (moral norm, a social norm, or a physical norm).
2. There needs to be a safe context where the violation takes place. That gives us permission to laugh.

In any venture, failure is required to make progress. Without failure, there is no progress and without progress, there is no happiness.