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Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.
A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day .
If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.
Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.
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.
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
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
Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.
There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.