I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

To me sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

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.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow I would look back on all the pleasures excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness not my miscarriages or my father leaving home but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Good humor is the health of the soul sadness is its poison.

Vegas means comedy tragedy happiness and sadness all at the same time.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Sadness is a very interesting idea this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness and the idea that sadness is very loud and happiness is quiet.

Some days are just bad days that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day that's just the way it is!

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears happiness or sadness.

We never taste happiness in perfection our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.