'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

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.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.

I feel that Orphei Drängar are among Sweden's foremost ambassadors. It's always a delight to hear the drängar, both abroad and at home.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Laughter means sympathy.