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

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.

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.

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break.

Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine.

He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob.

A lot can change in the editing room.

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.