"Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place."
- Denise Hildreth Jones
"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it on, spun around in the mirror, and decided I would choose this look, this image, this ide..."
- Nadia Bolz-Weber
"a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve"
- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic?"
- Charles Jackson
"When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him,a glimmer and a glint over those eyes,he kn..."
- Dave Matthes
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
- Robert Frost
"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."
"Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years..."
- Craig Ferguson
"It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will li..."
- Russell Brand