It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.
It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
I have a writing addiction.
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
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