Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

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.

Words have no power, unless you give it to them.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

What hurts us is what heals us.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.