"Who are you to say there is no god?"

Yeah, that's a quote from the Big Book, AKA the Alcoholics Anonymous book, 4th Edition. No, I don't have a "problem," but my Grandpa used to and he gave me this book because if it can change his life and so many others, I should read it just so I know what's in it. And it was GOOD.
What surprised me is that it's not just a fool-proof method to beat drinking and achieve sobriety, it's a freakin' LIFESTYLE. You can live by these infamous Twelve Steps:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-- that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all those defects of character.
7. Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Basically it's all about being right with your God and never holding a grudge between you and other people and trusting things to work out.
I also like one other phrase in this book:

"If you're an apple, you can be the best apple you can be, but you can never be an orange."
(pg. 427)

That applies a lot to life, because it means be yourself, don't try to be like other people. In A.A. I guess this would mean, "You're an alcoholic, not a 'social drinker.' You'll never be a 'social drinker,' so try to be a sober alcoholic."
Everyone, alcoholics, 'social drinkers,' and sober people alike, should read this book, just to get the idea out of it. I guarantee your life will be a bit better for it.