My Name Is Bill Quotes

“Nevertheless”
― Susan Cheever, My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous

“He was the number-one man. “Just now my problem is success,” he wrote to old friend Mark Whalon. “I confess I do not find it any easier than the problem of defeat. In some ways it’s more difficult. I find it a hopeless undertaking indeed to keep up with people’s expectations of me.”
― Susan Cheever, My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous

“The village charter of East Dorset is astonishingly similar to the charter that hangs at the front of every meeting room of Alcoholics Anonymous—the bylaws of a society that has no laws—and is called the Twelve Traditions. Here is the idea of the power of community and the magic of service. Here is the idea that in a democracy”
― Susan Cheever, My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous