The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
It's so much more interesting to study a. . . damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?
How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
What does it mean to be healthy? You may think that being healthy means that you are not sick, but being healthy is far more than that. If you feel okay, or average, or nothing much at all, you are not healthy.
There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.