Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that and really getting an education on it I think it was part of the process of it learning about it and trying to lick it.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex and the foundation of intelligence.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500 000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are as standing in a dictionary how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Never make predictions especially about the future.

Prediction is very difficult especially if it's about the future.

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax that's my problem.

My three addictions of choice are food love and work.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels primarily oil.