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.

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.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

To seek is to show valor. To endure is to show strength. To believe all will arise in a time of perfection. There shows trust and faith in you.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.