I mean I was famous for nothing.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
The choices of one shape the futures of all.
Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.
Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live.
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.
You can't quit or give up before you get it!
I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.
The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.