There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

The devil doesn't care about your age when he wants to destroy you, neither does God when He is about to save you.

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is not to take it too seriously - it's all about having fun.