Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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.

The most important thing in life is not what you are but what you have to offer.

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.

I don't go on tour tours, I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.