General

"These are my principals, but if you don't like them I have others"

I'll post two of my favorites. One has been a favorite of mine for a long time, the other is a new favorite.

Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
--Dr. Seuss

Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
--Charlie Chaplan

And now if I may, I'll be a nerd for a bit.

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you that transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, this is.
--Jedi Grand Master Yoda

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
--Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore to Harry James Potter

I'm not afraid...I'm not afraid...I'm...I am afraid. But that doesn't mean I can't fight back!
--Raven (Teen Titans)

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde eh? Mr "I have nothing to declare but my genius"

Churchil's quite a good one, there's the classic "Madame I am drunk, but in the morning, I shall be sober, and you'll still be ugly"

"Do or do not, there is no try" - Yoda

(oh, and my other one was Groucho Marx)

I like the funny ones

The way I see it, there are far too many well behaved people, and they accomplish nothing.
--Steffen Hessel, French Diplomat, when asked if he approved of Jose` Bove`.

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.
--Dr. Martin Luther King.

Yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it...or, learn from it!
--Rafiki (The Lion King)

Love OniGumo's film picks, but then I'm a bit of a nerd too. I have plenty of good ones that I picked up from WH Smiths diaries. Here are my favourites, that haven't been said already.

Everthing has beauty but not everyone sees it. - Confucius.

Most rock journalism consists of people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk for the benefit of people who can't read. - Frank Zappa.

Before enlightenment I chopped wood and carried water, after enlightenment I chopped wood and carried water. - Zen saying.

Marriages are said to be made in heaven, which may be why they don't work here on earth. - Thomas Szasz (American psychiatrist).

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of the romantic life, with it's agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist it is only the beginning. - Julie Burchill (British jounalist).

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney (American reporter).

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. - Ferdinand Mount (British journalist).

Size matters not, look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not, for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally, it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, and binds us...luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere...yes, even between the land and the ship.
--Jedi Grand Master Yoda to his apprentice Luke Skywalker

Of course this is happening in your head, but why should that mean that it isn't real?
--Headmaster Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore to his former student and protege` Harry James Potter