For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If y….

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be..

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh..

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation..

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones….

Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her str….

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine..

To be strong is to be happy!.

Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of fle….

Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's power to take the crowd wherever I want the….

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of….

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day..

The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins….

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much….

In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a lar….

Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stone….

Laughter destroys any divisions between people..

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter..

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night..

Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has..

You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting instant reactions. You he….