Yoda

You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.

Already know you that which you need.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

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.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.