After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

May the Force be with you.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.

I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than jut in their head.

The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

The New York Times made you or broke you.