It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

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 would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to!

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Nature streamlines the soul connectionwith the divine.

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail.

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.