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

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

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

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

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.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.