News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

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!

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.