John Lennon

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

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.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you

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

My role in society, or any artist or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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.

very day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.

Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

I think it’s sad when people make a lot of money and they want the biggest boat or the biggest car or the biggest plane.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.