You can care about someone’s health, future, and/or safety more than they do, or even though they don’t, but you cannot love them more than they love themselves.

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

We are so addicted to and desperate for happiness that we are often happy for other people.

What some people regard as freedom is slavery wearing makeup … a push-up bra … and a corset.

Slavery often masquerades as freedom.

What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.

The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.

Some people would not be nearly as creative or hardworking as they are, if they were not working to feed their addictions.

Life is a daily battle with people and things that are trying to change us and those that are trying to prevent us from changing.