Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain.