Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.

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.

Mediation on the scriptures transforms our lives.

Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.