Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

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 often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.