Disney: "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

Disney: "Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."

Disney: "If you can dream it, you can do it."

Disney: "Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

Disney: "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

Disney: "People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph."

Disney: "I believe in being an innovator."

Disney: "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

Disney: "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

Disney: "We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."

Disney: "Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."

Disney: "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

Disney: "I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

Disney: "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

Disney: "I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."

Disney: "Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."

Disney: "Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."

Disney: "We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year."