Humor

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

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

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.