TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

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

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

You’ve lied to me. You’ve hid things from me. How dare you talk to me like we’re still friends, like we ever mattered to you at all?--Sydney Field

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.