I was always one of these people who is irrationally moved by stupid pop songs.

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.

With grace of God, we can only be glad.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

They're not poodles, they're art.

I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.