Yoda

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

You must unlearn what you have learned.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

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

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.