You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your mind So push them clouds aside Forever by my side You're my golden sunshine

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

Chicken is good and never stop eating you will look like me and you will have hair like me and sing like me and be 500 pounds!!!!

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner