Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Never mistake motion for action.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

What keeps me going is goals.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.