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

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.

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.

The thought had crossed my mind, that in order to save this world from Hell, I might have to become the Devil.

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars

We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.