No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Laughter and the broader category of humor are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Increased revenues meaning higher taxes will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one and not to strive towards it.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gun powder Printing and the Protestant religion.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.