“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.”

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.”

“....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States.”

“I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.”

“Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.-Rumi”