Oh God! If you save me I will work for you.

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.

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?

I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.

It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.

The energy we put out is the energy we get back.

I drove a bus down Sunset Boulevard once, and I didn't kill anyone.