Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

To hear a radical change of perspective is to hear a kingdom minded man speak

An awesome thing children need is a frank smile from a sincere heart

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

In education, parody is obsolete.

I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know how long that success is gonna be there.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?