“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

“Be free. Don't just make freedom something you have, make it something you do … something you ARE!”

“Advice to students: Leap in and try things. If you succeed, you can have enormous influence. If you fail, you have still learned something, and your next attempt is sure to be better for it. Advice to graduates: Do something you really enjoy doing. If it isn’t fun to get up in the morning and do your job or your school program, you’re in the wrong field.”

“Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of”

“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”

“But… you can’t be Miyazaki, you can only be the second Miyazaki, and that isn’t something to aim for.”

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

“Live accordingly … success isn't something you have, it's something you do.”

“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”