"There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises."

-- Constance Rourke

#Humor Quotes #Character Quotes #Elements Quotes

“I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.”
“When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.”
“It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.”
“In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.”
“I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.”
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
“Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.”
“You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.”

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