John Lennon

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn’t know how to cry. Simple.

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…

When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll; apart from sex and food and money–but that’s all the same thing, really.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.