“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.

Only by trying on other people’s clothes do we find what size we are.

The sun is up, the sky is blue It’s beautiful, and so are you.

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that’s all.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go.

Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

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

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

I used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.