We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

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

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you.""I've given up on you, " he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.

It's a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.