Pastoral Resources

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

I just love listening to the laughter.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Shared laughter is erotic too.