Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

In our dreams we are always young.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.