I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

Everything human is alien to me.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.