Yoda

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

Do not assume anything. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

It is better to walk alone, then with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.