The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

‚The Lorax‘ book was intended to be propaganda.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Things do not change; we change.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

People can cry much easier than they can change.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

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.