Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

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.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

A man and a woman represent two heavenly beings.

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.

A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

A diary means yes indeed.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.