Bob Dylan

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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

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

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

You have to name it to claim it.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!