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. — 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. — Bil Keane

Of COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children. — Bil Keane

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. — Bil Keane

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Bil Keane

I don’t just try to be funny. — Bil Keane

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. — Bil Keane

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

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

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

Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are passe, what with the single–parent family and mixed family units. — Bil Keane

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that’s happened in the strip has happened to me. — Bil Keane

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

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

Goal begins with ‘GO. — Bil Keane

I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. — Bil Keane

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. — Bil Keane

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. — Bil Keane

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

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. — Bil Keane

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. — Bil Keane

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

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