Addiction isn’t about substance – you aren’t addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

It’s bad to tell people they have a hopeless disease they cannot cure. The obvious solution to addiction–quitting–is within human competence to achieve, so it shouldn’t matter whether the addiction is a disease, a “spell,” an astrological or genetic outcome, or just a bad habit.

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

If addiction is primarily obsession and compulsion, then whenever you feel like you don’t have a choice, you are in the radar of an addiction.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

The thing you love right away, don’t do it, because that’s the very thing that’s going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Addiction is a relationship–a pathological relationship in which … obsession replaces people.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.