We did not always come closer to wisedom by reason of our virtues; our better understanding is often rooted in the pains of our former folllies. Because this has been the essance of our individual experience, it is also the essence of our experience as a fellowship.

We have succeeded in confronting many a problem drinker with that awful alternative. ‘This we AA’s do, or we die.’ Once this much is firmly in his mind, more drinking only turns the coil tighter. As many an alcoholic has said , ‘I came to the place where it was either into AA or out [...]

Procastination is really sloth in five syllables.

The alarming thing about pride-blindness is the ease with which it is justified. But we need not look far to see that self-justification is a universal destroyer of harmony and of love. It sets man against man, nation against nation, By it, every form of folly and violence can be made to look right, and [...]

To see how our own erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word “blame” from our speech and thought.