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“The place to start in achieving an informed group conscience is with myself.”

“Gratitude is a tool, a form of perspective, reminding me to appreciate the simple things.”

“Gratitude is a tool, a form of perspective, reminding me to appreciate the simple things.”

“It is not the fault of great ideals that they are sometimes misused.”

“The roads to recovery are many .... AA has no monopoly on reviving alcoholics.”

“‘Let us always love the best in others -- and never fear their worst.’”

“The God I know today ... is a presence in which I find myself, just as I am.”

"Let us always love the best in others, and never fear their worst."

“One day leads to the next, no matter how unhappy I choose to be.”

"The place to start in achieving an informed group conscience is with myself."

"Every recovery, though it may go unnoticed, improves the world in some way."

“When finally my household went quite broke, I woke up to the fact that I hadn't been able to face the prospect of going back to work. So I returned to Wall Street after all. And I have ever since been glad that I did ... Indeed, there was one colossal dividend that resulted directly from my grudging decision to reenter the market place. It was a Wall Street business trip to Akron, Ohio, in 1935, that first brought me face to face with Dr. Bob -- AA's co-founder-to-be. So the birth of AA itself actually hinged on the fact that I had been trying to meet my bread-and-butter responsibilities.”

“When finally my household went quite broke, I woke up to the fact that I hadn't been able to face the prospect of going back to work. So I returned to Wall Street after all. And I have ever since been glad that I did ... Indeed, there was one colossal dividend that resulted directly from my grudging decision to reenter the market place. It was a Wall Street business trip to Akron, Ohio, in 1935, that first brought me face to face with Dr. Bob -- AA's co-founder-to-be. So the birth of AA itself actually hinged on the fact that I had been trying to meet my bread-and-butter responsibilities.”

“When finally my household went quite broke, I woke up to the fact that I hadn't been able to face the prospect of going back to work. So I returned to Wall Street after all. And I have ever since been glad that I did ... Indeed, there was one colossal dividend that resulted directly from my grudging decision to reenter the market place. It was a Wall Street business trip to Akron, Ohio, in 1935, that first brought me face to face with Dr. Bob -- AA's co-founder-to-be. So the birth of AA itself actually hinged on the fact that I had been trying to meet my bread-and-butter responsibilities.”

“AA is no set of tablets handed down to some latter-day Moses -- but a continuing creative process in which we all take part, a perpetual journey from the known to the unknown, a truth ever-arriving through experience.”