Yoda

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

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

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.

They say that history repeats itself, so if you don’t learn from the past you will make the same mistakes. So I have become an archaeologist of my own history. Digging up what has long since been buried, exhuming those forgotten fragments. Trying to distinguish what is real from folklore, trying to gain understanding, rather than relying on myths.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

All I want to do is change the world.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists – talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.