Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

It is better to hope than despair.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.