Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.