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“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.”

“AA is not a place; it’s an attitude of mind, a warmth of the heart – a spiritual fourth dimension where material things can’t get the upper hand.”

“At some point in each today, we recovering alcoholics need to pay ourselves a friendly visit.”

“I was told when I began my own journey through the Twelve Steps that I could find God in a most unlikely place: standing smack in the middle of the truth about myself.”

“The group I joined saved my life ... For an hour, I was safe. For an hour, I had a haven among those whose fear had once been as great as my own. I did not give my fear away – they took it. They eased it from my grasp with hugs and laughter, with shared experience.”

“My willingness to have my defects of character removed was bolstered by the realization that little, if any, spiritual growth was possible as long as I held on to my old ideas and defects.”

“When life is easy, I usually assume it’s God’s way and I’m quite spiritual. But when I’m in emotional trouble, I assume life’s a drag and that God’s gone fishing.”