"It is impossible to know everyone, but if I try to relate myself with just one other person, something will happen, something remarkable."

"It's a wonderful feeling to know that you don't have to be a god or a goddess, a saint or a genius, to lead a reasonably happy, sober, healthy, communicative, constructive, and useful life -- with some laughter thrown in for good measure."

"Don't regret growing old, it's a privilege denied to many."

“In AA, we slowly learn to stop stewing in our own juice and to start loving other people.”

“I am grateful today that God’s voice is stronger and surer than my occasional negative whispers, comforting me through difficult times, letting me know that I am part of the whole.”

“No self-pity, no anger, no jealousy, no hate. What had this program done to me?”

“I spent the first thirty years making a mess of the life I was given, the next thirty trying to figure out this simple program, and now I can try in the last thirty to loosen up, let life happen, and try to have a little fun.”

“Growing pains are never to be feared, provided I am willing to learn the truth about myself from them.”

“Practicing the Eleventh Step, along with reworking all the other Steps, has given me greater integrity and strengthened my sobriety. This is the kind of dependence I need: a healthy dependence on the Twelve Steps.”

“I may be a Loner but I am never alone spiritually. For this, I am deeply grateful.”

“As individuals, we can carry the AA experience and ideas into any outside field whatever, provided that we guard anonymity and refuse to use the AA name for money-raising or publicity purposes.”

“Spiritual fitness is required if I am to be of service to anyone.”

“Notes in the same key resonate together .... No matter how much continuous sobriety I have to my and AA’s credit, I am still only one drink away from a drunk, just like everybody else in these meeting rooms.”

“Sobriety -- freedom from alcohol -- through the teaching and practice of the Twelve Steps, is the sole purpose of an AA group.”

"I don't just hear the slogans anymore; I feel them when I speak them ... They take hold of me; they change the course of my day if I let them."