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

Goal begins with GO.

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

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

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.

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

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.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

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

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

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

I don't just try to be funny.

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

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