At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

If you want to be free be free

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.

You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

God I bring each wounded child to Thee.