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" 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. "

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" My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. "

" I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. "

" Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. "

" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face! "

" In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' "

" Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it. "

" Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' "

" Gags die, humor doesn't. "

" The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. "

" I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. "

" If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. "

" I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. "

" The secret to humor is surprise. "

" The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair. "

" I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. "

" I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well. "

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

" I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to. "

" The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. "

" I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. "

" Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music. "

" I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid. "

Tyler, The Creator

" There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. "

" A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? "

" At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family. "

" Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. "

" Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience. "

" All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. "

" I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. "