Yoda

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

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

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

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Property is organized robbery.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.