It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

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.

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.