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“My group included almost every type of alcoholic that old-timers feared most ... The amazing thing is most of us stayed sober, despite all the dire predictions. Why? Because the two things we had in common were more important than all our differences. We were alcoholics and we believed in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

“If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.”

“Experience has taught us that simplicity is basic in preservation of our personal sobriety and helping those in need.”

“By whatever name we may call it, the spirit of Christmas is in us all. How best to give and how to receive with ever more gratitude is our common aim. We'd like to practice the spirit of Christmas the year around. Therefore, we shall especially ask ourselves at this season: ‘What more can we find in order that we shall have more to give?’”

“I heard my future told around the tables at my home group.”

“Service made me feel useful. Twelfth Step work taught me to accept my past.”

“It feels good to be trusted.”

“Serenity is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”

“When I step out under the stars at night, they no longer seem cold or far away. They are a part of me and I am a part of them.”

“Remembering to observe the Traditions of anonymity and nonendorsement, the AA member can carry AA’s message into every troubled area of this very troubled world.”

“The AA message does not carry itself; somebody must carry it.”

“The most important thing AA has given me is the chance to get to know someone I never knew -- myself.”

“Sometimes when I think I am having a bad day, I am really learning a hard lesson, cheap. And sometimes, when I think I am having a good day, I am really in trouble and just haven't recognized it yet. I'm really no judge at all of what kind of day I'm having.”

“In relinquishing some goals because of lessened physical energy, I have been freed to achieve other and more satisfying ones that a deeper and more extensive Me has always known it wanted.”

“The other day, I sent an AA friend on a job interview. He went to the wrong address and he lost the man's name. In another office, he stated his purpose, was offered a job, and came back with one better than the job I sent him to look for.”