Like all young men I set out to be a genius but mercifully laughter intervened.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes or staring when you were in a fit of laughter would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

If love is the treasure laughter is the key.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Give a child love laughter and peace not AIDS.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

I just got one last thing I urge all of you all of you to enjoy your life the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought to get you're emotions going.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff I decided to discuss the events of the previous week the pain all of us were feeling and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

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

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter but in still smiles which lie far deeper.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain comedy and tragedy humor and hurt.

Through humor you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter no matter how painful your situation might be you can survive it.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it.

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.