If you accept the position of governor, part of your job is to make sure all your people have a decent shot at making something good out of their lives.

Where there’s life, there’s the hope of change.

Leave it to the Alderaanians to slap a cheery end on a nice little grisly children’s morality tale.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.

Praise begins a prayer.

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.