"Do I tell it the way I remember it or do I tell it the way it happened?"
"Do I tell it the way I remember it or do I tell it the way it happened?"
"Al-Anons talk longer than AAs because we remember more."
"I am not a public speaker. I may be more like a cross-eyed javelin thrower who doesn't set any records but he sure keeps the audience alert."
"I am here because I loved an alcoholic, I wish it was only one."
"I believe that alcoholism is a self-diagnosed disease and I say that having tried to convince people they have it."
"My MO was, no one knew how to take care of themselves and it was my job to inform them all."
"Heroin was my drug of choice with other people...I could not get high and take care of you at the same time."
"It says in the Bible that 'This, too, shall pass.' It doesn't say, 'This to shall stay'."
"All my knowledge of cancer will not keep me from contracting it."
"I know that into each life some rain must fall and, you know, I'm glad mine was spiked because it gave me Al-Anon and it gave me this Program and it gave me a way to live."
"I'm one of those who thinks a story starts with 'Once upon a time..' and ends with 'got married and lived happily ever after'. And I found out that isn't so. People get married and get happy once in a while and that's whether there is alcoholism or not."
"I was overly responsible."
"All I wanted to do was kill him."