Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Make good art. It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it.

To sulk is to create a noise

Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.

The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.