The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

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

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.