Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

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

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.