I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

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

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

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

Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

Acting like you don't care is not letting it go.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.