Don't be afraid to let your past and present come together to create something new

Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?