Communal well-being is central to human life.

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.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.