Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.