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"I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met."
"What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another."
"Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am."
"What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give."
"When humor goes, there goes civilization."
"He is not always at ease who laughs."
"I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror"
"The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood."
"I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me."
"The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter."
"I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions."
"I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart."
"To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded."
"I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable."
"The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth."
"I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile"
"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."
"Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter."
"To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body."
"People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'"
