Music is part of God's universe.

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.

Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

God is our loving Father who loves his children perfectly. So, every part of his Word is an expression of his love to us.

A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.