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" Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. "

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" You reach a point where you don't work for money. "

" I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things. "

" Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. "

" A man should never neglect his family for business. "

" I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. "

" I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. "

" 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. "

" Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. "

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

" We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. "

" We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. "

" We allow no geniuses around our Studio. "

" I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. "

" When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity. "

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

" Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved. "

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

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

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. "

" It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment. "

" I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. "

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

" The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. "

" Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. "

" 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. "