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“It seems the more I give to Alcoholics Anonymous, the better my life gets.”

“The temptations of riches could sometimes be worse than the pains of poverty.”

Whatever strengthens the spirituality of the group strengthens my spirituality, and vice versa.

"The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves."

“The things that count cease being those that can be held in the hand and become only what can be held in the heart.”

"The things that count cease being those that can be held in the hand and become only what can be held in the heart."

“The more willing I become to admit it when I am wrong, the less often am I in the position of having to make such an admission.”

"We in AA talk about crossing the invisible line into our alcoholism. What about crossing the invisible line into the program of Alcoholics Anonymous?"

“The things that count cease being those that can be held in the hand and become only what can be held in the heart.”

"The more willing I become to admit it when I am wrong, the less often am I in the position of having to make such an admission.”

“Difficult times bring us to new degrees of acceptance and humility because we learn on a deeper level how close we really are to our next drink. If we hang on, we learn how the grace of the Fellowship and the principles of the program carry us through the tough spots as well as the times of joy.”

“It was at my home group that I learned to trust the experiences of the early groups with meetings. We have a Traditions meeting once a month and when I was new and heard the Traditions read out loud, the experiences of the early AA meetings gave me the first notion that real people -- drunks like me -- started this program.”

“Difficult times bring us to new degrees of acceptance and humility because we learn on a deeper level how close we really are to our next drink. If we hang on, we learn how the grace of the Fellowship and the principles of the program carry us through the tough spots as well as the times of joy.”

"William Duncan Silkworth ... supplied us with the tools with which to puncture the toughest alcoholic ego, those shattering phrases by which he described our illness: the obsession of the mind that compels us to drink and the allergy of the body that condemns us to go mad or die. Without these indispensable passwords, AA could never have worked."

“It was at my home group that I learned to trust the experiences of the early groups with meetings. We have a Traditions meeting once a month and when I was new and heard the Traditions read out loud, the experiences of the early AA meetings gave me the first notion that real people -- drunks like me -- started this program.”