What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Don't do anything that isn't play

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Lord, if you can't make me thin, then make my friends look fat," humorist Erma Bombeck once prayed.

As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.

The medical community now freely admits that in a larger sense a person's attitude is one of the chief factors in determining the effect of all suffering.

We owe it to our husband or wife, our fellow workers, our children, our friends, indeed to everyone who comes into our lives, to be as happy as we can be.

We determine how much we will allow something to make us unhappy. That we can determine our emotional response to events is hard for many people to acknowledge. Most people think that events make them unhappy, that their happiness level is essentially dictated by what happens to them. But this is untrue.