If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

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.

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.

Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.