Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I live in a crazy time.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

My life has been very full.

My life is my message.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The art is long, life is short.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

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.‘