A great mind is just a great mind, and try not to worry too much about what package it's in.

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will, " or "I will not, " and mean it?

Grumbling is the death of love.

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for.