So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

What is familiar tends to become a value.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

I just love listening to the laughter.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

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

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

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

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.