“Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends—this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.” ~ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89~

“Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them.” ~ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 124~

“Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word “blame” from our speech and thought.” ~TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47~

“Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.’s message to the next sufferer? No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn’t care for this prospect—unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself." ~TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 24~

“. . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, “You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can keep you out.” ~TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139~

“A few hours later I took my leave of Dr. Bob. . . . The wonderful, old, broad smile was on his face as he said almost jokingly, “Remember, Bill, let’s not louse this thing up. Let’s keep it simple!” I turned away, unable to say a word. That was the last time I ever saw him.” ~ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 214~

“The member talks to the newcomer not in a spirit of power but in a spirit of humility and weakness.” ~ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 279~

“As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action.” ~ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87~

“Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.” ~ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 16~

“By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.” ~TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 23~