“Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re only very small and life flows on within you and without you.”

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

I’d rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don’t understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don’t mind no frowns, cheer down.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.

What’s often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

Once you realize something, then you can’t pretend you don’t know it any more.

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

It’s easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

All I got to be is be happy.

Even if it’s being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it’s still only a temporary thing.

I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We’ve been together a long time.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn’t be a problem.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need ‘regrooving,’ I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can’t be changed..And, forget the present because I didn’t get you one.

I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.