"I have had bouts of insanity in sobriety."
"This Program defies analysis."
"I have had bouts of insanity in sobriety."
"This Program defies analysis."
"I am a product of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"I used to say I came from a dysfunctional family but I'm it. The rest of my family was fine."
"I truly believe that alcoholism is a feeling illness."
"But I have learned since then that if you're sober and your black and your 6'4" and you weigh 259 pounds you can have an opinion if you want to. You might not get invited back but you can have an opinion."
"If this thing is not working around your dinner table then it's not working around here either."
"I'd rather slow down and enjoy what's going on and do some spiritual work, too, than to just run around in an agitated frenzy."
"I was not a bad mother. I was an alcoholic who did bad mothering."
"If I could get this over there and those two over there and that one dead - this would be pretty nice here."
"Humility is nobility on its knees."
"Hope is a four letter word that I acquired in Alcoholics Anonymous and it means, H.O.P.E. - Hearing Other People's Experiences."
"If you do what you ought to do, you will survive. If you do what you want to do you won't survive."
"We can't be hateful and grateful at the same time."
"...which is a pattern that remained with me throughout my drinking career and I felt ashamed and guilty and, oh my gosh, what did I do? And I couldn't wait to drink again."
"If only _____, then I would be happy"
"... and I supervised her with a drink in my hand. My outside circumstances are irrelevant. I drink because I'm an alcoholic and what makes me an alcoholic is - once I begin to drink, I cannot stop."
"And the miracle of Alcoholics Anonymous started for me that day."
"oozed into it over the course of 10 or 15 years."