From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

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.

Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.