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.

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life.

...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.

It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.

Year of snow Fruit will grow.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.