John Lennon

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

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

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.

When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder – in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.