No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

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.

In the name of forever, let's burn down our today and tomorrows.

My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

Karate is for life, not points.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.