It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

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

He knew himself well enough that once she was gone he wouldn’t last regardless. His heart would simply stop beating without her.

There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

I have a woman inside my soul.