A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.

Children are God’s or nature’s practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it.

I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.

The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

Failure is inevitable. It teaches us things about ourselves that we could have learnt any other way.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

I'm not out here to be showing you I'm this perfect person.

When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.