I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

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

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

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.

Let go of all the negative thoughts. Fill your mind with positive thoughts.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

This is a cemetery of memories and I'm grave robbing.

And you’re beautiful. You’d have to work pretty hard to mess that up.

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.