It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.

Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.

but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.