We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

You must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation.

I need no alibi, I did steal your heart.

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

I rose from marsh mudalgae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisybirds and frogs.

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'