Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

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.

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.