It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

Really, though, I just want to make the kind of comics I wouldn't be embarrassed to read in public.

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.