He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

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

You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, ” he said.

The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host.

A river cannot boast to a sea.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.