To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

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

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

People who wait for the right moment end up waiting forever.

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

There's many possibilities for anything.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.