"Without Exception, Begin Every Day of your Life with Gratitude."

“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”

“Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film.”

Source : "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

“Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.”

“Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.”

“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”

“I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.”

Source : "Building a winning boardroom team". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

“He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.”

“I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.”