Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell