I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

It’s in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

I'm not in the camp that believes that Netflix is going to take over the world...technology makes it impossible to have a monopoly.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Let us fill our lives with endless spring. Let us bloom with joy

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Real gold fears no fire.