And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.

Loneliness is the poverty of self

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.