If you want to be you, BE YOU!

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.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Love never follows laws.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.