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.

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.

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.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

And now she has you seizing control of my army.” “Your army? I thought this was Gaunt’s.” “So did he.

Beautiful, see the cloud, the cloud appear. Beautiful, see the rain, the rain draw near.

Chess is a test of wills.

The still small voice is wanted.