Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.

Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.

For the Jedi, there is no emotion; there is peace.

I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.

Up from the ashes come the roses of success.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. - T-SHIRT

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.