“My job is to achieve enough humility to see myself in others and to accept both myself and others, by identifying. The willingness to make amends will grow from this act of love.”

“Forgiveness entered my life through my heart, not my head.”

“You cannot get ahead until you learn to be here.”

“Humility is the soil in which all other virtues grow.”

“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.”

“It took two years to learn that I wasn't getting anywhere because I was always in such a hurry.”

“Demands, hopes, yearnings, and desires tie us to the static horror and the utter futility of the forever departed past and the never-arriving future. To want nothing – to know that we cannot make anything happen – brings inner and outer joy, total fulfillment.”

“There was no use in my wondering why or when I became an alcoholic for the very simple reason that it wouldn’t change my condition; even if I did find the answer, I would still be an alcoholic.”

“Whenever I am gripped by fear of an unknown future and all my projections are negative, I do what my sponsor directed me to do. I wriggle my toes and come back into the safety of the moment.”

“Tomorrow is never ours until it becomes today.”

“In AA it doesn’t matter who is right -- only who is left!”

“I thank God for bringing me to Alcoholics Anonymous, but mostly I thank Alcoholics Anonymous for bringing me to God.”

“The unity of our Fellowship, the love we cherish for each other, the esteem in which the world holds us -- all of these are products of such integrity, as under God, we have been privileged to achieve. May we therefore quicken our search for still more genuine honor, and deepen its practice in all our affairs.”