"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 underestimated the opponent."
"This is a good idea."
"I wear my defects on my back where I can't see them."
"12 stomp women."
"I am the adult child of a functional family."
"I was a blackout drinker. I am also a blackout speaker."
"I was a 'when' and 'then' guy. When I get this, then I will be successful, and I can stop."
"I have never let ignorance stop me from forming an opinion."
"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,"
"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."
"I knew to my toes that was alcoholic and I asked God to please help me."
"We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people ..."
"But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. Our egomania digs two disastrous pitfalls. Either we insist upon dominating the people we know, or we depend upon them far too much."
"What you do between the Serenity Prayer and the Lord's Prayer will never be as important as what you do between the Lord's Prayer and the Serenity Prayer."
"The common denominator is they relied on a Power greater than themselves and continue to carry the message of what my drinking was like, what happened to me and what my life is like now."
"We're getting wiped out, man. There is a big wave of heroin epidemic in this country. It's huge and if I were to come into AA today there is a good chance I'd probably be an alcoholic and a heroin addict...Being ignorant and naive I would have done it."
"A functioning alcoholic is like a paraplegic lap dancer. You might think you're bumping and grinding but only in your mind."