“Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually seeing how I was better than others.”

“How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?”

“To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems - most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I believed - have become manageable or have simply disappeared since I quit drinking.”

“I have come to believe that hard times are not just meaningless suffering and that something good might turn up at any moment. That's a big change for someone who used to come to in the morning feeling sentenced to another day of life. When I wake up today, there are lots of possibilities. I can hardly wait to see what's going to happen next.”

“I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.”

“When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.”

“I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.”