A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.

I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

Defining what success means to you requires important meetings – board meetings with yourself. When the “me, myself and I” committee meets and passes transformational resolutions.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

What is life but playing with time?

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.