“Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.”

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

Genius is clairvoyant.

Labor is the law of happiness.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

Genius can never despise labour.

And all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

Whether it’s animated, whether it’s live-action, whether it’s Broadway, whether it’s television, a musical is a musical is a musical.

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.

Animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.

Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,

I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.