The good is the enemy of the best.

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 hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.

And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?

Truth usually stammers at first.

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.

Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams

There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.

Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

People have started wasting fashion