It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

Instant Karma is going to get you.