“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
Bob Newhart

“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov

“I know Americans better than people of any other country and by knowing them better I think I know what they laugh at and what should be laughed at.”
Frank Capra

“I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.”
Buddy Hackett

“I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.”
John Barry Humphries