In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.