"I am responsible.
When anyone, anywhere
reaches out for help
I want the hand of AA
always to be there
and for that
I am responsible"
"I am responsible.
When anyone, anywhere
reaches out for help
I want the hand of AA
always to be there
and for that
I am responsible"
"It's nice to be invited. There was a time in my life when people stopped inviting me. I used to go anyway,"
"This is the most important day of my life because this is the only day of my life."
"You don't have to BE good - you ARE good."
"It really wasn't racially mixed. It was just that the white people hadn't finished packing yet."
"I am the only expert on my experience with this Book."
"I knew at a young age there was something different about me."
"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 was taught early on in AA that gratitude is not a feeling; it's not and emotion; it's an action."
"I don't think I came into AA to get sober...but to live in a world soberly."
"Alcohol did that thing for me that no other human could do."
"It was at that time that I began to see who Yvonne really was."