While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.'In short, we've voted you out of the family, ' Daffy said. 'It was unanimous.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Cheese!" I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.

Mother Goose!I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

Your life is your art.

The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.