Yoda

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

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

You must unlearn what you have learned.

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

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.