The biggest mistake Yoko and I made... was allowing ourselves to become influenced by the male-macho 'serious revolutionaries,' and their insane ideas about killing people to save them from capitalism and/or communism (depending on your point of view). We should have stuck to our own way of working for peace: bed-ins, billboards, etc.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just gotta make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.