You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Throughout history great leaders have known the power of humor.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment even though the game is so frustrating you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives without a sense of humor I don't know how people make it.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.