Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

May I remember the goodness of the Lord at all times.

I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.