The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

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

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

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

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.