"There are, I suggest, three fundamental requirements for growth in the spiritual life: The first is desire.The second is humility and the third is flexibility."
"If you don't like my driving, get off the sidewalk."
"I didn't like the way I felt, and I kept self-medicating...It's like I spent 30 years in a blackout."
"I did not want to give it up no matter what."
"Right now what we are looking for is the Big Chunks because this is not the last one you'll ever do."
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
"An unlived life is not worth examining."
"Alcoholics Anonymous has given me the gift of vision. I can see where I went astray. I can see where I was right, where I was wrong and when I didn't care at all."
"People out there think that Alcoholics Anonymous is for people to stop drinking. That's not true. It's for people who CAN'T stop drinking,"
"My story is not so much about a drunk-a-log. It's more of a think-a-log because my drinking career was very short and not sweet but what I talk about when I tell my story is what I felt versus what I did."
"I didn't pick that day. I would have picked a better day than that one. I would have picked Christmas or the Fourth of July or something like that but, you know, we don't get to do that here. You don't get to pick your sobriety date, you know. I picked a bunch of them. They just didn't take."
"Human life devalued to the price of a carton of cigarettes."
"I really have no social skills. Everything I know I've learned from the men and women of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"My feet are trained in Alcoholics Anonymous. It doesn't matter what is happening in my head."
"But no! Six and Seven are the crux of everything."
"Living with an absence of inner turmoil."
"You cannot act angry unless you first think angry."
"The most hurting and frustrating times of my life were those times when my own thoughts were my own worst enemies. I now begin each new day in joyous celebration because when I changed my thinking, I changed my entire life."