Author:Triskell
Website: http://www.user.xpoint.at/e.lebic/default.htm
Disclaimer: Master Yoda belongs to ...sniffle... George Lucas. Not to me, sigh...

Transcript of a speech held by Master Yoda at the Opening of the "New Coruscant Elementary School" funded by the Jedi Counsel and the Senate.

Good morning. Asked to make this speech I was. Keep it short, I will.

Size matters not. Believe what you see, you must not. Believe what you cannot see, you must. Hard to do this is at first. But learn to do it you must. Powerful, the Force is. Power in everything lies.

Mighty a plant is. Grow from a tiny seed it does. Draw its energy from the soil and the sun it will. Draw from the life around you, you should. But give back something you must, like a plant. A circle, a symbiosis in nature there is. Tap into this flow you can. Become a part of it you will if understand it you do.

Giving and taking there must be. Use without paying you should not. A way to the Dark Side, this is. Fragile, the balance of nature is. Taught well, you must be. Ready, you must be. Communicate with the Force unprepared you should not.

Superior to other life forms you are not. Equal, we all are. A Wookie your equal is, a plant, a stone, a brook. Understand this, you must. Belittle other creatures, you must not. Small you are compared to a Wookie; tall you are compared to a stone. Insignificant, neither of us is.

Work together, we must. Share our powers we should. Make us stronger, this will.

A part of the galaxy you are. Important you are for the whole. A place you have. Fill it, you must. Destined for your existence, you were. Needed, you are. What do with that gift, you will, on you it depends. Good you can do. Evil you can do. Bear the consequences you must.

Fallible you are. Fallible, I am. Fear this you must not. Strive for the best you should, continue to learn. If give your best you do, fail you will not. Go wrong you might. Stray from the Light Side you might.

But influence your destiny you can. Shape your world you may. Mould your life. Make an effort you must. Drift in an ocean of possibilities you do. Reach out and take them you must.

Like an ocean, the Force is. Elusive, the waves are, but ride them you can. Easy, life never is. Harder for a Jedi, it is not. Only more challenging. No solution giving up is.

Know what you can do, you never will - unless do it you will.