Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. 

If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

I think government can't do much.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

 Spirituality is beyond rituals.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.