Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

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.

Go to hell.""I've already been there. I own property in it.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

...It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.