For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

Peace, love, empathy

She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak.

Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

I never want anyone to have a bad evening because I caused it.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.