In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape...

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe…

You are much more than the sum of what you produce.

If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up.