“Early on in my drinking life I thought my life was successful. I had all the material accoutrements one sees among the successful and powerful. Although, I kept worrying when everyone would find out that I was just a pretender - a fraud.”
I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
— Herbert Bayard Swope
The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success. On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even though Our motives are good.
— Page 60 Alcoholics Anonymous
