Yoda

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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

Do or do not. There is no try.

Already know you that which you need.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

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

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.