Walt Disney Company

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

If you don't like Cinderella because she seems so "naive" and "weak," listen to this quote from the Walt himself: "She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

I think it__ important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I__e never had any fear in my whole life when we__e been near collapse and all of that. I__e never been afraid. I__e never had the feeling I couldn__ walk out and get a job doing something.

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

We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

How can you read this? There__ no pictures!_ __ell, some people use their imagination._ _ Gaston & Belle

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew." - Pocahontas

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

Some dream it, some do it, some do both.

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

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

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

I have always wanted to leave the village and seek adventure. I long to be remembered for something, even if that something is merely the pursuit of my dreams.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.