Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

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.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

The greater the need, the greater the quest for God.

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Happiness is like a butterfly.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.