John Lennon

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure –tangible material prosperity in this world -is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

What we become depends on what our fathers teach us.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?