There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

The more I live the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous but no sense of humor.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life choose a sense of humor.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

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.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

If I had no sense of humor I would long ago have committed suicide.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

In both children and adults there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.