"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

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

"Play it fuckin' loud!"
— Bob Dylan

"None but ourselves can free our minds."
— Bob Marley

"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind."
— Modest Mouse (Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News)

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
— Bob Dylan

"...And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person. "
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
— Bob Dylan

"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk."
— Tom Waits

"If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)

"This machine kills fascists."
— Woody Guthrie

"When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.

Let it be, let it be, .....

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, ..... "
— Paul McCartney

"When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live."
— Paul McCartney

"hello there, the angel from my nightmare.
the shadow in the backgroung of the mourge.
the unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley.
we could live like jack and sally if we want."
— Blink 182

"'Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.'"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"Under the rocks are snails and we can fill our pockets and let them go one by one all day in a brand new place."
— The Shins

"What you are and what you're meant to be.."
— The Grateful Dead

"Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes"
— Bob Dylan

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
— Mark Twain

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated: A Novel)

"Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously."
— Tom Robbins

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
— John Lennon

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
— Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan)

"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."
— Bob Dylan

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics:1962-2001)

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
— Bob Dylan

"you dont need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"
— Bob Dylan

"All I can be is me- whoever that is. "
— Bob Dylan

"He not busy being born is busy dying."
— Bob Dylan

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."
— Bob Dylan

"I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."
— Bob Dylan

"Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow."
— Bob Dylan

"Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles."
— Bob Dylan

"I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.

"From the back pages""
— Bob Dylan

"May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,"
— Bob Dylan

"The truth was obscure,
Too profound and too pure,
To live it you had to explode"
— Bob Dylan

"People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. "
— Bob Dylan

"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."
— Bob Dylan (Chronicles: Volume One)

"If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure"
— Bob Dylan