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

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..

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

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

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

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

Goal begins with "GO.".

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

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 d….

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 o….

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

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

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

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in m….

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 impo….

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

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

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I ….

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….

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