Yoda

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

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

Already know you that which you need.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

You will find only what you bring in.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

I heartily accept the motto,That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

If it matters, it will hurt like knives or wrap and lift you in the most immeasurable joy. Or both. One thing is certain, you will feel intensely alive.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Our best history is still poetry.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.