The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

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.

...one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

My family was my guide to my reality.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.