Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Mine is better than ours.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

To live is to think.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

To be awake is to be alive.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I never hold a grudge.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Man is a universe within himself.

I don’t want followers.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.