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Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don't even need to add sugar.

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

Shame is the root of all addictions.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

We are what we think.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

One of my daughters told me the other day, "Kevin Hart is funnier than you, Daddy." I told her, "Does Kevin Hart make you pancakes?"

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.