Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.

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

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

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

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.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

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

...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...

Necessity is stronger far than art.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.