New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.