The more you know the less you talk.

We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.

Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn't quite happen.

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

High school was great when it ended.

Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

I can't control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that's what I'm focused on now.