Quotes from Walt Disney

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.

Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

Worry is a waste of imagination.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

My imagination creates my reality.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

All of our dreams can come true...

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.