"I used to say I came from a dysfunctional family but I'm it. The rest of my family was fine."
"I truly believe that alcoholism is a feeling illness."
"On that date I checked myself into Decatur Hospital with a large bag of very inappropriate clothes...It hurt to look at myself in the mirror."
"There has got to be a better way to run my railroad."
"I am convinced that what gets us in here is that total aloneness."
"Today I have the ability to live peacefully, comfortably and joyously with myself and when I do that I have absolutely no difficulty living with you."
"I didn't spend five seconds on my related disorders."
"Now, thank God, the words 'as we understand Him', has no reference to understanding the infinite, thank God. It has reference only to the necessity for individual experience."
"Love in truth is possession but not the necessity to possess."
"It is a bit much to ask a woman who has spent 30 years trying to hide her problem to get up here and tell all."
"Right now what we are looking for is the Big Chunks because this is not the last one you'll ever do."
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
"An unlived life is not worth examining."
"And I found that, you know, I would go to a party and I'd drink too much and pass out and I didn't even think about it. I didn't even think what was happening to my life, what was happening in my family, how my kids were getting out of hand - never dawned on me."