Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.

Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.

Only indiscriminate love can make us free.

Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

In this world we must try to be kind to one another.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them