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

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

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