John Lennon

“Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.”

“There's nothing you can know that isn't known.”

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.”

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”

“I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.”

“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

“The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.”

“There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.”

“I believe time wounds all heels.”

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

“Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.”

“I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!”

“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”

“Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.”

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

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