Yoda

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

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

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

You will find only what you bring in.

Do not assume anything. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.

In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.