“Don’t complicate your mind.”

“Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.” —Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind. Have no fear for atomic energy, ’cause none of them can stop the time.” —Redemption Song, from the album Uprising (1979)

“Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.”

“If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.”

“It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.” —Running Away, from the album Kaya

“It’s your own conscience that is gonna remind you; that it’s your heart and nobody else’s that is gonna judge.”

“Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you’re not ready for judgment.”

“Man is a universe within himself.”

“Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.”

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

“Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.”

“So before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.”

“Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.”

“Tell the children the truth.”

“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”

“Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.” —As quoted in Rolling Stone’s The Immortals (2004) Bob

“Until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask!”

“You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time.”

“What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.”

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior"