I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

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

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

I see my goals as personal and I always have. That's just been how I've worked.

What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.