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I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.