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“Recovery is giving it away. If you don’t give it away you can’t have it ... Be part of the pipeline.”

“I like to say that AA is a program you can use to learn to follow the will of your higher self.”

“My life and the lives of those around me do, in fact, form their own parts in a symphony of interaction.”

"Before the coming of faith I had lived as an alien in a cosmos that too often seemed both hostile and cruel."

“Today, my short version of the Third Step is this: Keep taking care of me, Lord, because I appreciate it now.”

“Nowhere in the AA literature does it say that this is a selfish program. It does, however, talk about becoming selfless.”

“The simplicity of this program never changes -- what works is constant: trust in God, clean house, and work with others.”

“I like to say that AA is a program you can use to learn to follow the will of your higher self.”

"My life and the lives of those around me do, in fact, form their own parts in a symphony of interaction."

“Recovery is giving it away. If you don’t give it away you can’t have it ... Be part of the pipeline.”

“I can say no to a lot of things I’m not interested in. All the people-pleasing activities I used to engage in, I can cut out now. That gives me time to do the truly helpful, gut-warming little things, just because they need doing and I truly care. I have time to work my program.”

“I can say no to a lot of things I’m not interested in. All the people-pleasing activities I used to engage in, I can cut out now. That gives me time to do the truly helpful, gut-warming little things, just because they need doing and I truly care. I have time to work my program.”

"Since personal calamity holds us in bondage no more, our most challenging concern has become the future of Alcoholics Anonymous; how to preserve among us AAs such a powerful unity that neither weakness of persons nor the strain and strife of these troubled times can harm our common cause."

“I can say no to a lot of things I’m not interested in. All the people-pleasing activities I used to engage in, I can cut out now. That gives me time to do the truly helpful, gut-warming little things, just because they need doing and I truly care. I have time to work my program.”

“To be happily sober, we must be active -- and this does not necessarily mean group activity. The Loner is part of a much larger group of people in far distant places, all members of AA with the same problems, fears, and happiness to be shared ... I may not be in face-to-face contact with other AA members, but my real friends in AA are too many to enumerate, and I find there aren’t enough hours in the day to do all I should.”