Charles M. Schulz Quotes

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness... Be careful what you eat. And stay home.

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

Do you ever feel like running away?" "Of course... Sometimes I feel like I want to run away from everything." "I remember having that feeling once when I was at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm... I climbed over the fence, but I was still in the world!

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

When no one loves you, you have to pretend that everyone loves you.

Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.

Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?" "Oh, yes... I have a very nice room." "I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!" "Why do you tell me things like that?" "It's on a list I've made up for you... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

I come from a long line of generations!

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's all about the friend who comes and stands by your side in bad times.

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo." "He says he's not your sweet babboo." "What does he know?

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

Nobody remembers who came in second.

I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!

Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy. How can I ever forget them.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl... I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I don't forget her face, I'll go crazy... How can I remember the face I can't forget? Suddenly I'm writing country western music!

People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate would be better... Something just a shade more friendly..." "How about 'Dear Fatty'?

We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.