Young men wish: love money and health. One day they'll say: health money and love.

What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.

Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value.

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.

If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around.

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds, I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.