Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.