“what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?”
“Always be yourself. There is nothing else you can be. How can you be not yourself? How could you be something else than what you are?”
“When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”
“I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?”
“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”
“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”