"With the help of the Fellowship, the Twelve Steps, and a Higher Power ... I do not have to be a newcomer again."

"I have made a determined effort to focus more on seeing myself as God sees me."

"While we readily share our views, perhaps one of the nicest things about the AA program is that we don't always have to agree with each other."

"Those little maxims 'Easy Does It' and 'Live and Let Live' have come to be deeply meaningful and significant."

"The beauty of sobriety is that sometimes I am the one supported, and other times the one supporting. One act helps destroy my ego, the other my self-centeredness. I need to practice both actions if I want to survive"

"Always a heady wine, success may sometimes cause us to forget that each of us lives on borrowed time."

"I don't fear for the future because I am in the loving arms of AA today."

"I've never taken my sobriety for granted because I know I'm only one drink away from ruining my life."

"Since today marks not only the last day of my life to this date, but also the first day of the rest of my life, and since I have come to believe that the best is yet to come, I think today has been my best day sober."

“Keeping a Tenth Step journal about my day-to-day life, my relations with other people, and the stuff that still roiled around in my head helped me see patterns in my thoughts and behavior, which I could discuss with my sponsor. And once I began to sit quietly, reflect on what I’d written, and pray, I began to sleep peacefully for the first time in my life.”

We can always come up with a reason to drink. The secret is, how many reasons can we come up with to stay sober?”

“The measure of my sobriety isn’t the distance between now and the last drink -- the measure of my sobriety is the distance between now and the next drink.”

We AAs have had to learn that the kinds of freedom that we must possess cannot possibly be obtained by violence. As a Fellowship, we cannot fight anybody, anywhere or at any time. This has been proved. When we had directly attacked John Barleycorn, we had lost. Booze fighting had never worked. When we quarrel too much with each other, we get drunk.”

“Each night, I think of the Tenth Step and ask myself, ‘Have I, this day, helped more than I’ve harmed? Given more than I’ve taken? Created more than I’ve destroyed?’”

“Nothing could be sadder than to lose touch with ourselves in recovery; to have our connection to our Higher Power blocked by resentment; to be governed by old ideas we are only dimly aware of and that hold us back; or to be reduced by our fears to living sequestered from life. For the sunlight of the spirit to enter, the window must be kept clean so the light can pour through.”