Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it