OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

Goal begins with "GO."

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

The Antidotal Nature of Love makes Hatred a Fallacy

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.