We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.
I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.