"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"You can't cheat kids.  If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems.  I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time.  You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you."

"If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim, and once you've learned-SWIM."

"I believe in everything until it's disproved.  So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons.  It all exists, even if it's in your mind.  Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?  Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

"I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore.  I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself.  I don't want to die at 40."

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.""The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up."

"You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story . That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."

"I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it."

"You're in a fishbowl so make use of it, man."

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."

"You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story . That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.".

"When I was 12, I used to think I was a genius and nobody had noticed. If there such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't, then I don't care."

"That you may see the meaning from within: It is being, it is being."