If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

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

Bear and forbear.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

You have to control things, especially with the social media, because once it's out there, it's out there. And that becomes the fact.