You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

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.

Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line.

I couldn’t fight the tide, so Idecided to float along.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.