"Everything is prospective, and man is to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.”

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”

“No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.”

“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

“With a heavy load and a long journey”

“When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.”

“You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.”

“If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?”