My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

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.

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

I love my family.

There are way too many comedians now.

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

If you know how to live, even death is good news