The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.

Judo is a study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.