"Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects."

“The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals”

“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”

Source : Walter de la Mare “The Return”, Lulu.com

“It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.”

“You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast”

Source : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

“Improvement is nature.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.228

“All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.”

“Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.”

Source : Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com. July 20, 2007.

“This being-nice crap was for thebirds.”