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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

Leadership is fundamentally about credibility.

A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.

They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.