It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

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

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

, m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?

Relationships should be built on trust and truth.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.