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.

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

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.

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

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

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.