Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

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

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

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 will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.