It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

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.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that.

You may not be her first, her last or her only. She loved before; she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?