Yoda

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

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

Already know you that which you need.

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.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds – not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but – a hatred of all injury.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.