Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

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.

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

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.

I can write three hundred and sixty-five grateful thanks. Cultivate the habit to write gratitude daily.

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Everything is falling into place.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.