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

Slavery often masquerades as freedom.

Drunkards have a problem, not with sobriety, but with reality.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

It almost never takes a pleasant state of mind to desire to be high or drunk.

Some of our endeavours to eliminate or forget our problems invite more problems.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.