I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

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.

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

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.

Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.

When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.