Quotes from Bill Wilson

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see.

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Let us always love the best in others—and never fear their worst.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, although for the moment you do not see.

So we need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.