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.

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.

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.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

Everyone is looking for a miracle, when God puts in your heart the desire to pursue after your dreams, that's a miracle!

A man is only as common as his dreams.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.