“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”

“In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.”

“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.”

“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”

“We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.”

“Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen.”

“You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.”

“Being happy on seeing others happy is happiness multiplied.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life”

“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”

“What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know...”