To be calm when you've found something going on

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.

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body

Transformation as a psycho emotional phenomenon functions as a loop: changing the way you perceive Change

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.