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

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.

At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.

...you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends.

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

Thunder only happens when it's raining.