Bill Wilson Quotes

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

It makes too much sense for our cities to market themselves as one to the rest of the country. Think of how the Carolina Panthers first began marketing themselves. They weren`t the Charlotte Panthers. Now they draw from the whole state and South Carolina.

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

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain.

Depression is unfocused self-pity.

In God`s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

I got calls from people at three NFL stadiums saying how good it looked, ... I give all the credit to my people; they`ve never let me down. That`s the high note I`m going out on.

A 96-sheet with a light-box costs a lot of money but if you are going to have it for 10 years, it`s worthwhile.

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

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.