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“There is always grace for the days I’m helpless.”

“I went to Paris when I was young to become an artist. I wanted to be rich and famous, but God had another plan. I’m neither rich nor famous. Instead, I got sober.”

“Don’t wait till you’re depressed to practice gratitude.”

“As I continue to see the inherent worth and dignity in every human being, I will continue to live on a more level playing field with everybody.”

“Living sober is not all roses all the time. But the cool thing is, when I am nervous, it is OK. I do not have to drink to fix it. It is the same with being sad, worried or afraid.”

“When you’ve been lost, lonely, forgotten, rejected, it’s the most important thing in the world to have somebody shake your hand.”

“The simple act of getting in touch with AA that first time washed out in an instant the dark loneliness that had encompassed my life.”

“Neither God nor AA can help us if we are not open to help.”

“Life’s formidable array of pains and problems will require many different degrees of acceptance ... Sometimes, we have to find the right kind of acceptance for each day. Sometimes, we need to develop acceptance for what may come to pass tomorrow and, yet again, we shall have to accept a condition that may never change. Then, too, there frequently has to be a right and realistic acceptance of grievous flaws within ourselves and serious faults within those about us – defects that may not be fully remedied for years, if ever.”

“With a recovering alcoholic, action has to come before understanding and faith ... We have to act our way to right thinking, rather than the reverse.”

“I must continue to see my own kinship with whatever God is identifiable, just as relentlessly as I work to make each minute a sober one.”

“The alcoholic slip is not a symptom of a psychotic condition. There’s nothing screwy about it at all. The patient simply didn’t follow directions.”

“It has to be love, not government that keeps AA stuck together.”

“I accepted the invitation to go on a Twelfth Step call and I in turn was twelfth-stepped.”

“I am grateful for this minute. My eternity may be in it.”