"Now I've gone through some things alone in Alcoholics Anonymous but only when I chose to."
"The Big Book does not go through dozens of ideas a few times.
It goes through a few ideas dozens of times."
"Now I've gone through some things alone in Alcoholics Anonymous but only when I chose to."
"The Big Book does not go through dozens of ideas a few times.
It goes through a few ideas dozens of times."
"Then the gig was up...Those are the sorts of things that practicing alcoholics do."
"Pass It On"
"I am a product of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"I was really such a victim. O, my heavens. All the counselors said so."
"And it wouldn't work for me because I was either too bad for AA or not bad enough."
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
"I've always heard it said that Treatment is Discovery and AA is Recovery."
"I had a ghastly secret that during my career of going to doctors I could not share - would not share. My secret was this - I had to drink. I had to drink to live. Now I knew this and I was very ashamed of it. But I was absolutely panic stricken at the thought that somebody would find out and when they found out they would try to remove me from the bottle and then, of course, I couldn't live, or at least that was what I believed."
"Service is nothing but the twelth Step in action. Service is not a separate part of AA. There are no separate parts of AA. It's all one AA Program."
"This business of coming out of your shell is so exciting ... You don't come from the outside in. There's no way. It's broken like a chicken, from the inside out."
"Humility is nobility on its knees."
"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."