I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

time is the best teacher

The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

cleverness is a disease.

People are sheepish when they approach me.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.