Yoda

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

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

You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Round numbers are always false.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.