Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Our dreams make us large.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.

We will be stronger, if we love each other.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.