I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.