I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die but, you know, I'm still just taking one day at a time.
The mind is what the mind is fed.
The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.
To think confidently, act confidently. . . Act the way you want to feel.
Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.
There is a good side to every situation.
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.