No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.

The big difference is, as a man, I can go to a bar at two in the morning and people will be like "He's just a fun guy! That's cool that he can balance all these things." But if you see a person that you know who has two young kids and is a mom, there's no way those perceptions are the same. It's like "Oh, there must be a problem." That's usually what women face.