"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
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"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
"When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience."
"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things."
"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."
"So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last."
"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
"Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS."
"Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation."
"A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!"
"If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane."
"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes."
"And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up."
"If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter."
"It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss."
"When you see what is not real, this laughter comes"
"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there."