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.

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

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.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Many years of Independence turning out to be years many citizens want to gain Independence from

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)