In the end, all solutions are temporary.

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 will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?

We are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

If say 90% of Christian marriages were intact, people would be writing about it.