Bob Dylan

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

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.