John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.

Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.

If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.