Bob Dylan

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

God is a loving god.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

All beings are by nature Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.