Bob Dylan

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.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

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

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I’m not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.