Matthew Woodring Stover Quotes

If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

All true stories end in death.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.