“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”

“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

“[A]ll the causes of the sufferance refer themselves to this rule, that the strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease.”

“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”

“She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. To "do" – it hardly mattered what – would therefore be an escape, perhaps in some degree a remedy.”

“My dream when I was a child was to be a medical doctor so that I could help people suffering from diseases.”

“Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.”

“My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic (Hi Marshall), I have a disease and they don't know what to call it.”

“An outstanding effort filled with important information for those who treat alcoholics, live with alcoholics, or who are alcoholics…. A significant contribution to the field, and all who deal with alcoholics would benefit from reading it.”