"My wolves come disguised as sheep."
"The difference between a spiritual awakening and a spiritual experience is that when we have a spiritual awakening, we awaken to the fact that we have had spiritual experiences our whole life."
"My job is to stop running and let the Hounds of Heaven catch me."
"I am not the greatest hero of emotional sobriety in the world."
"A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole."
"I don't identify as a drug addict. I never met a drug alcohol couldn't help."
"I wasn't important enough for me to stay sober for...but when you told me, that if I stayed sober and I made myself an example and I made myself a good life, that somebody else could share in that good life, too, as a result of the help that I gave them. That just set me on fire!"
"I am either walking hand in hand with the Master or trying to catch up."
"I started sharing what it was like, what happened and what I wish I was like now."
"Nothing says love like a restraining order."
"Today I have the ability to live peacefully, comfortably and joyously with myself and when I do that I have absolutely no difficulty living with you."
"I didn't spend five seconds on my related disorders."
"Now, thank God, the words 'as we understand Him', has no reference to understanding the infinite, thank God. It has reference only to the necessity for individual experience."
"Love in truth is possession but not the necessity to possess."
"There was a time in Alcoholics Anonymous when I confused activity with action,"
"I didn't appreciate anything."
"I hope I'm adopted...I thought they were pathetic, and I treated them like they were pathetic."
"How do we reconcile being true to ourselves with getting rid of self?"