Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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.
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Take a chance! All life is a chance
Do not let your fire go out.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work - that isn't the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they're addicts. The problem is admitting it.
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
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