“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

“The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?”

“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”

“But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”

“Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.”

“What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.”