A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC

I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ’s Christianity.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side."

Well, what the hell is there to say? After an interviewer told him: 'They say Dylan never talks.'

I'd go home knowing that I was on the threshold of something - maybe not as pure as Heaven's rain, but something anyway, and that whatever I was on the threshold of was going to deepen as the years went on Mentally preparing/planning for tour after finishing Tom Petty tour