"You want to feel better? Go to the next AA meeting... find the most busted up buckaroo in there... get him a cup of coffee... and watch the miracle take place."
"Alcoholics Anonymous wasn't unlike a to-do list. I didn't get to A.A. because I had a bad weekend; I had a couple of bad decades."
"The main negative I have with AA is that not all the time people are told if it's not working, you're doing it wrong."
"The most rigorous data available on Alcoholics Anonymous shows that it can help people get sober, stay sober, drink less, and suffer fewer negative consequences of drinking, all while keeping healthcare costs down."
"His impact on us in those early days certainly registered, and the principles emphasized by the Oxford Group later lent them so very readily to the formation of AA's 12 steps and the publication of our book, Alcoholics Anonymous."
"AA means that technically speaking this book more accurately describes what she ultimately needs to do with the Grand Duke."
"I was literally like a newborn child who had to learn how to live and people when Alcoholics Anonymous helped me learn how to live."
"I even since I'm a little bit older in the category I'm actually every now and then trying to go to an AA meeting because once you graduate you go to them you're still totally welcomed and loved."
"I love Alcoholics Anonymous and what it's done for me and for the people that I care about most in the world."
"In the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, we are free from the chains of the past that bind us."
"The amazing thing about Alcoholics Anonymous is that it has provided me the chance to open up compassion in my heart that I never thought was there."
"The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our society has."
"There's a spirit in Alcoholics Anonymous, in a good AA meeting you can feel it in the room, it's God."
"Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy."
"By the grace of God and his gift to me, the Blessed Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am this morning a very grateful recovering alcoholic."
"I was taken to my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting... and the most extraordinary thing happened to me which changed my whole life."
"I came to AA; they talked about being sick and tired of being sick and tired, and that sounded just about right."
"I walked into the Plano group and it was a wonder to behold."
"Alcoholics Anonymous gave me peace, just gave me a God in my very own that I not only believe in, I trust in everything that I do."
"Alcoholics Anonymous and those 12 steps are powerful enough to walk through anything and we can be okay."
"Closed meetings are for AA members only or those who have a drinking problem and have a desire to stop drinking."
"I continue to learn, I continue to remain forever a student of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"Personal calamity holds us in bondage no more, almost challenging concern has become to preserve the future of AA for those to come."
"The plan of recovery laid out in the Big Book is broad enough and open enough for everyone to enjoy."
"This is Alcoholics Anonymous, and we deal with all types."
"We save lives, we're resurrected, we're reborn in Alcoholics Anonymous."
"I found light and laughter; I found life and love in the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"Through the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, I will experience a spiritual awakening and begin to feel the fulfillment of the spirit within me."
"The very success of AA kind of obscures other methods."
"I'm in love with Alcoholics Anonymous, and how could you not be if you are involved and you're making amends and you're repairing the damage."
"I'm an everyday member of Alcoholics Anonymous because I suffer from alcoholism."
"Everything else in Alcoholics Anonymous is designed to ensure and support one drunk talking to another."
"No one is in charge of anybody. There is no one in authority in A.A. at all, and yet A.A. works."
"Public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need to maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films."
"By the grace of God, the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the 7:10 group of Midland Texas, I haven't had a drink containing alcohol since June the 9th of 1963, for which I'm extremely grateful."
"Every living single thing that I have in my life, I owe to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"If you're going to be successful in Alcoholics Anonymous, you have got to learn to be a verb."
"Life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than attending meetings; it's the connection we have with each other."
"No one is too discredited or who has sunk too low to be welcomed cordially if he means business."
"There is enormous change available in Alcoholics Anonymous."
"I'm here to share with you the things that have been given to me in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"Alcoholics Anonymous was the best thing that ever happened to me."
"Chris, don't do this, go back to AA."
"The good news for us is that there's life after booze because of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"I'll have you know that since I joined AA, alcohol has not touched my lips."
"I believe Alcoholics Anonymous is the single most significant social movement of the 20th century."
"The fellowship aspect of Alcoholics Anonymous, I cannot stress that fact enough."
"I've built a real life for myself in Alcoholics Anonymous."
"If you're new here tonight... I hope the word 'being sober' doesn't offend you as bad as it offended me when I came to my first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous."
"It's always an honor and a privilege to be asked to participate in Alcoholics Anonymous in my recovery."
"I am in my 37th year without a drink or a pill of any kind due to the fact that there is a program called Alcoholics Anonymous."
"The messages never die, which when you think about it, is all that AA is. It's one message that has been passed on for 72 years, same message."
"Virtually every alcoholic who walks through the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous can live a happy, useful, productive, sober life."
"I didn't come here to stay this long... it just happened to me as a result of immersing myself in Alcoholics Anonymous."
"I am privileged to do something that I love to do, and that's to talk about something I've fallen in love with: the thing called Alcoholics Anonymous and my experience with it, the 12 steps, a program that literally saved my life."
"The early guys in AA, the first 100 that got sober, all had spiritual experiences in less than a month."
"The wonder of Alcoholics Anonymous is that there's gonna come a day when you are gonna feel in your heart that it's Saturday night and you're so happy that you're not drinking."
"When I think about Alcoholics Anonymous, I get goosebumps that this society exists on planet Earth like an oasis."
"That's what Alcoholics Anonymous and spirituality is all about."
"I'm in love with Alcoholics Anonymous. How can you not be if it's done anything close for you what it's done for me and the people I've come to care about?"
"Alcoholics Anonymous has helped me through the highs of life and the lows of life."
"I've taken nothing for my this thing inside me except Alcoholics Anonymous."
"If you think you have a drinking problem and haven't tried AA, stop reading this essay and go to a meeting."
"We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body."
"I'm honored to get to do anything in Alcoholics Anonymous."
"By the grace of the power that I found in the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I haven't found it necessary to take a drink for 11,846 days today, one day at a time."
"One alcoholic working with another is vital to permanent recovery."
"If you're going to keep it, you've got to give it away."
"Of alcoholics who came to AA and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way."
"If we follow it as they did, then I think we could expect to get what they got out of it too: recover from alcoholism."
"We are more than 100 men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body."
"You'll always be alcoholic, but if you do what we did, then you don't have to drink anymore."
"It is an honor and a privilege to get to do anything in Alcoholics Anonymous, but this is an especially neat privilege."
"I am not an authority on Alcoholics Anonymous, twelve steps, twelve traditions, or alcoholism. I'm only here to share my experience, strength, and hope such as it is today."
"The program of Alcoholics Anonymous is a program of action."