My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

Be the solution, not the problem.

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

All this happened, more or less.

Happiness is the only goal worth pursuing

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.