Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

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.

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume will become what you consume

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.