Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

All art is but imitation of nature.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Smiles are the language of love.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

My message is that God is a good God.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Children make your life important.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.