Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.

But our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders; and none commiserates either boys or men.

It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.

The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

The love of life is the root of all good.

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.