Say what you think; think what you mean.

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.

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don’t --Alvin Ailey

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

Busy idleness urges us on.

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

When I see that people are touched, and they feel solidarity with him, I say to myself, "I made a little change."

I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.

When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all want, the way we understand happiness.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.