No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.

Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.

Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.

Love is a sweet dream until the hand of reality wakes you up

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas.

If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

I don't get no respect, no respect at all!

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.