At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain