Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.

Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal.

Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people.

I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.

You must be willing to play with Failure before you reach Success.-RVM

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.