Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

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

We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.

Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry.

The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good

The dream giver [God] will remove mountains, He'll fill valleys, He'll straighten crocket ways for you to fulfil your dreams. And His timing is the best.

I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now.

Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.