Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.