John Lennon

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

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

I don’t intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I’ll be around I don’t intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don’t want to die at 40.

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…

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

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

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.