It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Don't make it new

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives.