Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter...

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.

Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends

I wasn’t saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still...

And so this is Christmas…what have you done?

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

There is an alternative to war. It’s staying in bed and growing your hair.

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

Being honest may not get you many friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don’t know what will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. We’re more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick...

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, “Why has nobody discovered me?” In school, didn’t they see that I’m cleverer than anybody in...

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up....

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as...

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

War is over … If you want it.

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you’re so clever and classless and freeBut you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

Nothing is real.

Whatever gets you through the night

One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.

The sun is up, the sky is blueIt’s beautiful, and so are you

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making...

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say...

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is...

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…

For those of you in the cheap seats I’d like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?

Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered.

I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it.It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.

Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement,...

Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s going to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real...

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus...

It’s weird not to be weird.

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.

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

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.