“And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.”

“He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.”

“A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.”

“I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it.”

“I placed quite a burden on Anakin, didn't I, by giving him that name." –Leia Organa Solo "He is strong enough to carry that burden, Leia...He's young, yet he has courage and intelligence." –Elegos A'Kla”

“Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.”