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

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.

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.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.