“ Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt. Edna Ferber Novelist
“ It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Seneca The Younger Philosopher
“ I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must no make so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them. Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“ I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously. Alan Rickman Actor