I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

People drink and do drugs for a reason. Cause it makes them feel good - until it doesn't anymore.

I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

If we want to stay Happily in this world and also after world.Then make home, But Not on the ground, make home in the heart

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

I'm not a betting man.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.