Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

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.

the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous.

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.

I have written a book it's called "Stronger Together."

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.