The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.

to make mistakes is human

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

If you are going to leave message, you have to be able to give enough value or reason to get your voice mail returned.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.