I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.

A fresh year, a fresh life.

Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha, Basara, Vol. 13)

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.