In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.