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.

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.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.