Your family is your greatest treasure.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Parenting is a journey of love and patience.

Sometimes the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary by love.

Every family has a story. Welcome to ours.

The journey is the reward.

Time spent with family is never wasted.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Life is full of little surprises. Embrace them.

Sometimes the best way to be heard is to listen.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Live in the moment.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Love is what makes the world go round.

The best revenge is massive success.

Creativity takes courage.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

To be a good parent, all you need is love and patience.

I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Home is where the heart is.

Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.

Laughter is the best medicine.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Children are our most precious gift.

A father’s love is forever.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.

Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen to Him by leaving them laughing and chuckling with one another.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream.

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start.

I don’t just try to be funny.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education – for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.

A family is where life begins and love never ends.

Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers think we live just down the street from their own home.

It’s not what you have in life, but who you have in life that matters.

OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.

I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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

Happiness is being surrounded by the people you love.

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

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.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.

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.

Life is a series of moments, some of which are perfect.

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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