Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

Gratitude is the the energy of faith.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.