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“I spent the first thirty years making a mess of the life I was given, the next thirty trying to figure out this simple program, and now I can try in the last thirty to loosen up, let life happen, and try to have a little fun.”

“No self-pity, no anger, no jealousy, no hate. What had this program done to me?”

“Without a connection to my Higher Power, I am the same old person with the same old defects, causing the same old pain in my life and others’.”

“As individuals, we can carry the AA experience and ideas into any outside field whatever, provided that we guard anonymity and refuse to use the AA name for money-raising or publicity purposes.”

“Sobriety -- freedom from alcohol -- through the teaching and practice of the Twelve Steps, is the sole purpose of an AA group.”

“Notes in the same key resonate together .... No matter how much continuous sobriety I have to my and AA’s credit, I am still only one drink away from a drunk, just like everybody else in these meeting rooms.”

“Spiritual fitness is required if I am to be of service to anyone.”

“We don't have to go to Akron, Ohio, to see Dr. Bob's memorial. Dr. Bob's real monument is visible throughout the length and breadth of AA. Let us look again at its true inscription -- one word only, which we AAs have written. That word is sacrifice.”

“I don’t just hear the slogans anymore; I feel them when I speak them ... They take hold of me; they change the course of my day if I let them.”

“Today, my short version of the Third Step is this: Keep taking care of me, Lord, because I appreciate it now.”

“AA gives us a Ph.D. in life and a black belt in common sense.”

“Life in contented sobriety seems to be a matter of looking at the reality of myself in my attitudes, actions, and character rather than trying to run away from it.”

“Because of this program I am starting to love myself again. I still get urges to ‘drink and drug’ but I don’t let them run my life. I value good friends today. I value my serenity, and I value life today.”

“Each AA has been an individual who, because of his alcoholism, could seldom govern himself. Nor could any other human being govern the alcoholic’s obsession to drink, his drive to have things his own way ... Yet we alcoholics can be led, we can be inspired.”

“My heart sings with each new day.”