I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

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

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.