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“Emotional and instinctual satisfactions, I saw, were really the extra dividends of having love, offering love, and expressing a love appropriate to each relation of life.”

“When I look into the eyes of the person next to me and ask, ‘How are you?’, I will take the time to listen. I want to keep in mind that at any given time, each of us may need the same love and support as someone who is attending their first meeting.”

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

“The actual experience of turning myself inside out for the first time in the presence of an AA member left me drained and numb; but when feeling started to come back, I found that I had changed. For the first time in my AA experience, I could feel the sunshine of God’s love on my wounds, and true peace of mind.”

“I cannot adequately describe how light I feel since I took the Fifth Step, and how soundly I sleep.”

“Trying to figure it all out in my head brings on waves of fear, anxiety, and self-reproach. So I say, ‘What can I do for myself and others today?’”

“In AA we aim not only for sobriety – we try again to become citizens of the world that we rejected, and of the world that once rejected us.”

“Human beings come and go, but principles go on and on.”

“I build today the road I travel tomorrow.”

“The most difficult thing a man can do is turn his eyes inward upon his real self.”

“When I’m in fear, my sponsor always tells me, ‘Maybe you should get a bigger God.’”

“Simplicity, devotion, steadfastness, and loyalty; these, we remembered, were the hallmarks of character which Dr. Bob had well implanted in so many of us.”

“We will still have daydreams ... But they will be constructive dreams, rather than mere flights of fancy.”

“When we concentrate on loving those we think are unlovable, we find out how expansive love is.”

“In the Twelve Steps, AA offers not a theory, not a hypothesis, not a pious hope, not -- thank God -- wistful or wishful thinking, but an historical record of how more than 25,000 [now over 2,000,000] alcoholics achieved sobriety.”