“Laughter is tranquilizer without side effects.”

“If every day is first day of your life, maybe you are being perpetually infantile.”

“Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.”

“As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope”

“we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.”

“I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.”

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”