It's hard to get by just upon a smile.

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

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.

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.

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

If you like someone, you wish them well.But.If you love someone, you breathe wellness into them.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.