You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

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.

a criminal sketch of Christon a diner napkin-'Poet Prophets

What is impossible today can become possible tomorrow only if we do what is possible today.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.