Bob Dylan

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

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.

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

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

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

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

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

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

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.