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“Happiness or tragedy might just depend upon a slight sign of recognition, a nod of the head or perhaps a friendly smile.”

“My past sobriety is not a ticket to future sobriety. I have to pay that fare and make the decision to recover daily.”

“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.”

“The unique ability of each AA to identify himself with, and bring recovery to, the newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills. The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety.”

“Let us remember that great legion who still suffer from alcoholism and who are still without hope. Let us, at any cost or sacrifice, so improve our communication with all these that they may find what we have found – a new life of freedom under God.”

“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.”

“I believe the peace I get from an effective Tenth Step is what God feels like.”

“I have a way to live that fills every hole my gut ever had.”

“In AA we have no VIPs, nor have we need of any. Our organization needs no title-holders nor grandiose buildings ... Experience has taught us that simplicity is basic in preservation of our personal sobriety and helping those in need.”