Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.