"Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen."

"Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am."

"I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside."

"Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."

"I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."