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"I don't need to project the future or cry about the past. Just live to the best of my ability, one day at a time."

"By admitting where I was at fault, I was given the ability to forgive ... With forgiveness came a freedom that I had not anticipated. The amends had required nothing but courage, and a faith that my Higher Power would carry me where I had been too afraid to walk alone."

"I had a really good reason for working Step Nine and making amends to my family and friends. I didn't want a parade of people at my funeral singing, 'Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!'"

"AA is spiritual, is the eye of the hurricane, is my refuge and my comfort."

"My Higher Power works incognito, defying definition and requiring faith."

"I felt myself move with a new power, courage, and faith that, by the grace of God, I have acquired as a result of working the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous."

"The individual must sometimes place the welfare of his fellows ahead of his own uncontrolled desires. Were the individual to yield nothing to the common welfare there could be no society at all – only self-will run riot; anarchy in the worst sense of the word."

"I am feeling much better now, and I thank God for AA and my good friends. I have learned how to accept their help."

"When I'm willing to pay the price for top-shelf sobriety, 'action' is still the magic word."