“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’”
“Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.”
“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
“Addiction begins with the hope that something “out there” can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.”
"In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is."
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
“My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life… but it takes work — hard, painful work — but the help is there, in every town and career, drug/drink freed members of society, from every single walk and talk of life to help and guide.” –
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
"I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know."
“Once I was clear-headed, and I hadn’t been clear-headed in so long, I was like, I can never go back. And I’m still thankful.”
“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand as what direction you are moving.”
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
"Alcohol was a temporary solution to an ongoing problem.....................ME."