Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.

Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

You are or become what you think you are

How beautiful this city, or perhaps any in the world, is to a woman who knows her bed awaits her even as she lingers, barefoot in the rain at midnight.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?

The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.