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...

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.

It doesn’t matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

I used to think that the world was doing something to me, that the world owed me something. And that either the conservatives or the socialists or the fascists or the communists or the Christians...

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

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

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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.

I was the walrus, but now I am John…and so my friends, you’ll just have to carry on. The dream is over.