Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Humor is a silent and polite dynamite which enables you to blow your own way of life sky-high every time you have had enough of it, yet with the maximum discretion and without making a mess.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

(A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.)

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Laughter distances us from that which is ugly and therefore potentially distressing, and indeed enables us to obtain paradoxical pleasure and therapeutic benefit from it.