Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

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.

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.

Taking positive control of your daily thoughts is the only way that you can discover your true self.

In order to step into our Promised Land we need to cross River Jordan.

He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-edged arrow-head, a little more of it disintegrating with every day.

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

I follow my inner star. I AM a shining example of Love and Light.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.