John Lennon

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time, because it’s too hard…To put it loosely, the reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up…

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good;be good for something.All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Always play like an underdog.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Never learn to do anything. If you don’t learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

When you know better, you do better.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.