Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy

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!

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear