They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Take a load off, don’t take everything so seriously. And just be happier.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.