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

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.

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.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

God wants to continue to appear to people through those who live like Jesus

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.