Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Be the person you wish to be, not who you are told to be.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?