“We’re trying to impress ourselves in a way. That’s why we keep trying to do things better. We never get satisfied.”

We’re now the results of our past actions, and in the future we’ll be the results of the actions we’re performing now.

It’s by your own actions you’re able to get more in a mess or out of one. It’s your own actions that relieve or bind 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.

I worked hard, day after day, evening upon evening, trying to impress others I’d forgotten I impressed myself.

The Lord breathes the breath of life, contrition of heart, into the face of the soul when he impresses upon it his own image and likeness, which has been soiled by sin, and renews it.

It’s fine if you doubt me. Underestimate me, because then I’ll just impress you, you know.

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I’m not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.