It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

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.

Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Some people have to leave your life because their very presence prevents, perverts & distorts your purpose. Don't be afraid to let go.

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.