Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.

I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.