Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

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

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.

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

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

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

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

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.

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

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that’s why they’re called beings

Soul mate love transcends beyond the ethereal plane.

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.