John Lennon

It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was "all you need is Love." This year, it's "all you need is Love and peace, baby." Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it.  The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.

Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.

"I believe in God but, not as one thing, not as some old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

As breathing is my life, to stop, I dare not dare.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. -John Lennon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.