When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?

Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.