Quotes from Bil Keane

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.

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.

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

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

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

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

Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into the comics.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't just try to be funny.

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

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 dear to me.