I’m more affected than ever by that sweet and powerful aura of the church; that marvelous spiritual essence flowing down by the centuries touches me as no other emanation does, but when I look at the authoritative layout, despite all the arguments in its favor, I still can’t warm up. No affirmative conviction comes.

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.

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

I am proud of our people. They bust their butts to do the best they can. The public is pretty pleased with the facility. This place has been here almost 40 years. It's old. There are problems. We don't deny that. When you sit vacant for six months, TVs are not going to work and it is going to be dirty.

I asked them why they hadn't been winning, and they said they needed to be worked harder and needed more structure. They should be careful what they ask for, but they've been great. It's a great group of girls.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

Before we had to print all of our images on film, now we give a patient a CD with their images burned onto it.

In 41 years, you're the first congressman to come talk to us.

I'll miss the people I worked with, ... I won't miss the pressure or the critics. I won't miss the politics.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to the next -- chain style. If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual experience. This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as Alcoholics Anonymous has since achieved.