You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

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.

To be a successful doer, be a dreamer.

It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me.

I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.