Bob Dylan

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!

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

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.