Bob Dylan

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.