It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.

Passion creates, addiction consumes.

Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

The margin is very marginal.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.