Yoda

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

Already know you that which you need.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.