When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

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

How many people you bless is how you measure success

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

I think that money has changed my sport.

A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.