"Don't worry, be happy.  Faith, hope and love can work miracles (but a few dozen elves
            working overtime can't hurt.)  Set challenging goals, work hard to achieve them and
            then take a long vacation.

    "Tomorrow is a mystery, yesterday is history and today is a gift.  That is why it is called
            the present."

    "God gives every bird it's food.  But he does not throw it into it's nest."

    "A critical spirit is like poison ivy ...... it only takes a little contact to spread it's poison."

    "It is far better to forgive and forget, than to resent and remember."

    "Blessed are we who laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."

    "Minds are like parachutes ..... they only function when open!"

    "Happiness isn't an accident ..... it's a choice!"

    "Wherever you go ... there you are....."

    "NOTHIN' changes until you change."

    "Expectations are premeditated resentments."

    "People can fail many times, but they are not failures until they begin to blame
            someone else."

    Everyone smiles in the same language."

    "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."

    "It's not the yets we have to worry about, it's the again's."

    "Unless I accept my virtues, I will be overwhelmed with my faults."

    "You can make your life what you want it to be through belief in God and in yourself."

    "You don't count sobriety by the number of meetings you have attended, but by the
            number of steps you've taken."

    "The chains of alcohol are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

    "The Road to recovery is ALWAYS under Construction."

    "When the Program doesn't work, am I still negotiating the terms of my surrender."

    "The shortest sentence in the Big Book is, "It Works." "

    "Untreated alcoholism without the steps on a daily basis will make my past my future."

    "The most natural state of an alcoholic is irritable, restless, and discontented."