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.

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.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic there was in the world. How much magic that wasn't just buried in a tomb. He was feeling it now.

What? You mean this crap shack isn't part of the Four Seasons. Shocking.

Leadership without a following is null and at best loitering

She is such a health food nut she thinks a grape is wine in pill form.

In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.