Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

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

Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.

He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.

Not your parabatai any longer.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.