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

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.

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.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.

Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.