Sobriety Quotes

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn`t have any of those things.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don`t put it on a platform. I don`t campaign about it. It`s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

I don`t really hang out with a lot of people anymore. In the past I always had to surrounded myself with a crowd. Today, I just don`t need it. But while my life might seem dull to some, it`s exciting to me. That`s because through my sobriety, I`m finally able to enjoy a level of serenity that I`ve witnessed in other people but never had myself. And that kind of self-contentment can`t be purchased or acquired. It has to be earned. I`m trying to earn it. Everyday.

In sobriety they teach you to think the drink through. Don`t just think about having the drink and how good it`s going to feel. Think through to the next morning, how it`s going to influence you, the shame, how it`s going to trigger the domino effect. If I do that I end up with, OK, I`m not going to drink. It`s the same thing with one-night stands. I appreciate my time in the mornings so much that I`d rather go to bed at night alone than deal with waking up, creeping around the bedroom, being quiet, worrying. Also, I`d like to be with somebody I care about. Something moderately substantial. - Quote from 2001.

I have learned so many lessons about sobriety, and I thank my `Higher Power` a million times a day. Things just really are a lot more serene when you aren`t messed up.

They`re not blameless in the Mideast conflict. Now when you`re loaded the balance of how you see things comes out the wrong way. Let me be real clear, here. In sobriety here, in front of you, national television ... that I don`t believe that Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. I mean, that`s an outrageous, drunken statement.

(On kicking drugs and alcohol for the first time) "All I have to say is this. Sobriety F***ing Sucks!

(The colorful shirts he favored suggested a trial`s natural sobriety never dimmed his spirits.) My most heartfelt prayer, ... is that they`ll find out who did this and I will be able to ask why.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.