John Lennon

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don’t know anything.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.

Not to be provok’d is best: But if mov’d, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Make a good use of the present.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.