Stan Lee

I think I've never stopped feeling like a kid.

My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.

I've been the luckiest man in the world because I've had friends, and to have the right friends is everything: people you can depend on, people who tell you the truth if you ask something.

I always felt the 'X-Men', in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.

When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like 'Snow White' and 'Pinocchio'.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

We live in a diverse society — in fact, a diverse world — and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.