The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

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.

The holy time establish the holy-event.

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make; it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.