Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

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

I want them to see the magic of how everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world

Different generations and people of different ethnic origins have different views on China. But they all agree on one thing. That is democracy.