I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.