This stranger had the key — Cat Stevens

"Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom ‘Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon"

"Now Ive been happy lately Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has begun. Oh, Ive been smiling lately Dreaming about the world as one And I believe it could be Someday its going to come."

"Now Ive been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why cant we live in bliss?"

"Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like."

"If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help, I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. Id try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is."

"I wrote a song called "Father & Son" about the son running off to do his own thing. Now the story is about my son coming back and bringing a guitar into the house. A couple of years ago, one morning after prayers, his guitar was lying around. I picked it up and my fingers knew exactly where to go. Id written some words and when I put them to music, it moved me and I realized I could have another job to do. Things just grew from there."

"Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost."

"Software manuals must be free, for the same reasons that software must be free, and because the manuals are in effect part of the software. The same arguments also make sense for other kinds of works of practical use — that is to say, works that embody useful knowledge, such as educational works and reference works. Wikipedia is the best-known example. Any kind of work can be free, and the definition of free software has been extended to a definition of free cultural works applicable to any kind of works."

"Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby ones own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare."

"Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me."

"No kind action ever stopped with itself. Fecundity belongs to it in its own right. One kind action leads to another. By one we commit ourselves to more than one. Our example is followed. The single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make fresh trees, and the rapidity of the growth is equal to its extent. But this fertility is not confined to ourselves, or to others who may be kind to the same person to whom we have been kind. It is chiefly to be found in the person himself whom we have benefited. This is the greatest work which kindness does to others,—that it makes them kind themselves."

"There is still hope and kindness in every human being if we dig deep enough."