I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

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.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.