John Lennon

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

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

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Let us try what love will do.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.