“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

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.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

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

Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don’t understand the assignment, I told her she doesn’t understand life.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

This moment! – this here-now – is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a politician – and we’re certainly not a family of politicians, and politics is certainly not our family business – it’s been amazing.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The word enough doesn’t exist inside our minds when it comes on achieving and receiving for our pleasure.