John Lennon

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.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

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

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Madame, you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks, as long as you’re happy.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

You try to smile it away, some things you can’t disguise.

I’m really happy to be me, and I’d like to think people like me more because I’m happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

For a long time I hated my body, because I was constantly suffering. But now I look at it like an old Mercedes with chrome bumpers. It costs a fortune to repair, it breaks down all the time, you can only use it once a week, the seat leather is starting to crack – but nonetheless it’s mine.

I enjoy being me; I always have done. I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I don’t want that in my life.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.

You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that.

Baby, that’s just me.

I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that’s where power starts.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.