Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

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

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

we dig our graves with our teeth.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.