Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old in 1974. It was a tiny organization in which a lot of things got started simply because there was all this time to fill. If you wanted to do an hour on Lithuanian folk dancing, you probably could have done it.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.