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.

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

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the first action to conquer it.

Keep your Eyes on All that's Good and Beautiful and Possible in the World. Because "The Stories We Tell Create the People We Become.

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.

You're hopeless dumbif you blindly tweet rumours and get ripped on-line.

I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

I wanted to be a plumber.

Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing.