Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week.

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

Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.

We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.

It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

John Paul to give me a shot, I'll never forget as long as I live.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.