Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

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.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

London; a nation, not a city.

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

These are the decisions we make that lead us to where we are today.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange