I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

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

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.

Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.

Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'