We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.

You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.

The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.

Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.

We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.

If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.

Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.

Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.

Pursue meaningful adventures.

Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted.

Only when she smiled at him was he finally able to relax.

A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.

She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

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