"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

"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 live as one."
— John Lennon

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

"All you need is love."
— John Lennon

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
— John Lennon

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
— John Lennon

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

"Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed."
— John Lennon

"(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
'How do you find America?'
'Turn left at Greenland.'"
— Ringo Starr

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
— John Lennon

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
— John Lennon

"For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!"
— John Lennon

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. "
— Paul McCartney

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
— John Lennon

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
— George Harrison

"War is over ... If you want it."
— John Lennon

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
— John Lennon

"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.'"
— Kurt Vonnegut

"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
— John Lennon

"Nothing is real."
— John Lennon (Beatles Lyrics)

"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe."
— John Lennon

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
— Paul McCartney

"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one."
— George Harrison

"Whatever gets you through the night"
— John Lennon

"We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on..."
— John Lennon

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
— John Lennon

"When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.

Let it be, let it be, .....

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, ..... "
— Paul McCartney

"Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darlin' it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' the smiles returning to their faces
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Little darlin' I feel the ice is slowly meltin'
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been clear
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right"
— George Harrison

"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all...till you're so full of fear you can't function at all. A working class hero is something to be."
— John Lennon

"It's all in the mind."
— George Harrison

"Give me a break." (Lennon's comment to fundamentalist Christian outrage at his comment that the Beatles were now more popular than Jesus)"
— John Lennon

"I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over."
— John Lennon

"I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me."
— John Lennon

"I am the walrus."
— John Lennon

"It's all too much."
— George Harrison

""If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian."
"
— Linda McCartney (Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals)

"Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea."
— George Harrison

"Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus."
— John Lennon

"No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap."
— John Lennon

"...it was not simply a matter of musical taste; whether you preferred the Beatles or [the Rolling] Stones said much about your personality and character. People who were happy, intelligent, well-adjusted, popular, clean, decent and punctual tended to be Beatles fans. Those who were evil, cretinous, scabby, drug-ridden, filthy, criminal perverts liked the Stones.
As for your author, I personally take no side in the controversy, remaining strictly neutral."
— Lewis Grossberger

"An entire generation now regards Nirvana as its version of the Beatles. They are of course hopelessly mistaken, but I would not recommend you tell them so."
— Lewis Grossberger