Gary Trudeau

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?”

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.