Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

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.

Life should not be measured by duration alone but by donation also, by what you do during your lifetime.

Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.

Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?

The Soul does not just share the answers you seek — but, how all you want can be achieved.

The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them like I do.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.