We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?

Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.