We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable.” – p. 134

Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God told them they could not eat of a certain tree. – p. 113

In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even kicking and screaming. – p. 179

When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74

The essence of humility in Step 3 is acknowledging and accepting our dependence on God. The essence of faith is trusting God. – p. 167

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

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I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.