"When you feel pain, that's just God doing surgery on you."

"If one person calls you an a**, they might be. If three people call you an a**, you might want to check to see if there's a sign on your back, because you might be one after all."

"It's never been about the first drink. It's about the thought before the first drink that really gets me into trouble."

"I love tacos. Some would call me a taco addict. I eat tacos everyday, sometimes for more than one meal. But I will tell you what-  I've never been accused of driving under the influence of tacos; I've never stolen so that I could get more tacos; I've never woken up in the middle of the night, making calls to find more tacos; I've never woken up in a jail cell because I ate too many tacos; No one has ever staged an intervention, wherein all the people that love me expressed concern that I might have a taco problem. I'm just saying."

"Discipline is a type of self-love."

"What would be great must be done daily."

"Turning over your will and your life is just a bunch of instances of doing the next right thing."

"I'll never know enough to start the adventure, but I'll learn what I need to know as I'm taking the adventure."

"I remember the first and the last, but not how many were in between."

"It's never been about the first drink. It's about the thought before the first drink that really gets me into trouble."

"Prayer doesn't make things right for me; it makes me right for things."

Step 2: "Came to believe..."

"Can you come to believe in a power greater than whiskey and cocaine?"

"All my dreams came true, and then became my problems."

Only at a meeting...

"Hi, I'm ________ and I'm an alcoholic"
"Hi _______"
"I quit my job today"
[meeting bursts into cheers and laughter]

"Do not speak a spiritual language that your life is not a reflection of."

"'I'll figure something out' is NOT one of our sayings."

"I realized that if I wanted to feel loved, maybe everyone else wanted to feel the same way."

"Don't worry what comes first, the chicken or the egg. If you've got an egg, eat it. If you've got a chicken, eat it."

"The difference between me and God is that when God wakes up in the morning, he doesn't wish he was me."

"Always walk with your head up and with grace, even when you're in the wrong. Move forward."

"Life sucks better sober."

At the 8:00pm meeting...

"There are three times you need to go to a meeting: when you want to, when you don't want to, and 8:00."

On accepting your addictions/compulsions...

"Acceptance is not approval."

"This old timer at a speaker meeting once said that there are really only three things you need to do to get sober and stay sober and have a good life: 1) Show up. 2) Pay attention. 3) Tell the truth."

"There was an eight-ball of cocaine at the bottom of every bottle of Miller Light I ever drank."