Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success politically as well as spiritually and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

My dad always said I was hard-headed that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes creatively and spiritually.

My deepest impulses are optimistic an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.