This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

A girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived. It had a lot to do with Yoko showing me that I was still possessed. I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling. I learned everything from her. ... It is a teacher-pupil relationship.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.