The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

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.

Addiction is pretty simple. It's what happens when peolme don't get what they need, and end up soothing themselves.

Passion creates, addiction consumes.

To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

There isn't a soul on the planet who doesn't crave your approval.

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

Israel must be wiped off the map.

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.