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

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.

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

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

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.