Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

What is like chemistry? Well. Life. It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Scholar George Myerson has recently written a study of happiness. After 250 pages tracking moments of joy throughout history, he concludes that humans are happiest hanging with friends, gathered around tables with good food and conversation and laughter. If you can get that table out of doors, so the sun can kiss the skin—if as you dine together you can also provide help for others—then, according to Myerson, you've won the lottery of life.[36]

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.