When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

I am not a genius but I approach every situation with love.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.