I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

I think I’ve got wiser.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.