A day without laughter is a day wasted.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

It’s those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

If you come from a place of love, and you’re not saying, ‘I’m better than you,’ that’s one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It’s almost like laughing with each other.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player…now it’s my turn to laugh.

I’m a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you’re going to be okay.

I’m always satisfied with going to soup kitchens or homeless shelters. A big one for me is children’s hospitals. I love spending time with kids, rooting for them, making them laugh. Any small act of kindness is just as important as a donation. So volunteer. Go out there and see how you can make a difference and help someone.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

If I couldn’t laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn’t laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren’t all crazy, we would go insane.

Americans don’t know a lot about the Middle East – [they] don’t know we laugh.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren’t laughing anymore.

I’m worried about privacy because of the young people who don’t give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private lives online. They put stuff on Facebook that 15 years from now will prevent them from getting the jobs they want. They don’t understand that they are mortgaging their future for a quick laugh from a friend.

Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword… D’Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of me. D’Artagnan: The world’s biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple… meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o’clock and bring a long wooden box. D’Artagnan: Bring your own… Porthos: [laughs]

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don’t take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I’d feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it’s probably because there was some truth in it.

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I’d want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

Beware the god who cannot laugh.

I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we’ll laugh through it. Granted I don’t want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.