Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

You have to be someone.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

I am two with nature.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.