I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

I am proud of my work for my country.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

I am not a madman or a nut.

Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.

I don't trust words. I trust actions

With therapeutic Qigong when there is no cure, there is palliation.

...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.