No, you're right. Life has a way of making your road very clear in some instances. But here... [Leia laughs a little bit, low and unamused.] What happens here, for the most part, seems to be of our own making. Whether that is for good or ill is up to us.

As for the Force, I can only tell you what my father told me. The Force is everything. Everything alive is a part of it—the land, the plants, the animals, and us as well. It cannot be corrupted. It is merely borrowed for a short time until we return to it.