God is either everything, or He is nothing.

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

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

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

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

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

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

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.

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

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

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

If the Good Lord meant men to use percussion caps, he wouldn't have strung flint all over the ground.

Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

Man is a degeneration of what he was.