Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness..

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor.

God is either everything, or He is nothing..

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart..

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is..

How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth….

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat mu….

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But….

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God..

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best..

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way..

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and a….

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual..

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would resto….

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can p….

The good is the enemy of the best..

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience..

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for mem….

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear..

Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of pro….