The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

Happiness is an inside job.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

Pursue peace and harmony with all men.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

You know, people are basically shitty

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.