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As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

If we knew how to listen to God, we would hear him speaking to us. For God does speak. He speaks in his Gospels. He also speaks through life — that new gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

I'm an addict for underwear.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.