A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

[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.

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

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

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