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

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.

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

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

Government is force pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience for novelty or for nostalgia but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

It's funny though with films because you can incorporate a variety of elements and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.