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

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.

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 though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.

I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.