From the Grass Roots

THE Big Book is priceless. You cannot buy what is in it for a hundred thousand dollars. It tells you first that you can live. It gives you direct personal evidence that there is hope for you if you think you are hopeless. It tells you how to stop drinking and it tells you how to stay stopped. It tells you how you can live. You can read it with wonder, but it will really do things to you if you listen to it. For it does not present a theory which can be explained but a fact which cannot be explained, and this is told by people like you, talking to you.