Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.