#Laughter

"I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."

"It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!"

"A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life."

"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."

"You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow."

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."