Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying

[Mickey Mouse] He 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.

Frying pans! Who knew, right?

To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

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.

its fun to do the unexpected.

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