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“Often in sobriety, I’ve prayed when I needed to meditate. I’ve yammered at God so much that God can’t get a word in edgewise. (What I practice with people, I cannot help but practice with God.) To me, meditation is simply being quiet and listening for a change. It is buttoning up my lip – and my mind that yaps even when my mouth is shut.”

“I politely invited God to spend the day with me (like a visiting relative or friend), and instantly began a mental dialogue with God ... I realized that in the process of introducing myself to God, I was getting a good look at who I really was.”

“Turn toward that power and ask for help whenever you feel disturbed or afraid, the way a plant turns toward the light.”

“As we better use the ‘language of the heart,’ our communications grow apace: already we find ourselves in safe passage through all those barriers of distance and language, of social distinction, nationality and creed, that so divide the world of our time.”

“I am free to like and enjoy what I have. I don’t need to exhibit my high values by hating my rowboat for not being a yacht, my house for not being a palace, my child for not being a prodigy.”

"May we never forget that we live by the grace of God -- on borrowed time."

“If I try to soar with the eagles, I'm likely to appear more of a turkey.”

“Long before I was a binge drinker, I was a binge thinker. I tended to think incessantly, as if this were an essential part of staying alive. My mind either had no ‘off’ switch, or, if it did, I had no idea where it was.”

“Spiritual awakening ... begins with knowledge and acceptance of the truth about ourselves.”

“Those of us who saw the shadow of the butterfly net overhead are blessed if we get to know that an open mind can save.”

“We believe that any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an AA group provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.”

“We are all important, but not for the reasons we think.”

“Sanity begins with the admission of reality into the mind.”

“I am trying to do what I can to love, today. Can anything else be more important?”

“The foundation stone of freedom from fear is that of faith: a faith that, despite all worldly appearances to the contrary, causes me to believe that I live in a universe that makes sense.”