Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.

In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people are looking for and what they disagree with.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.