Roger von Oech Quotes

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

When you are open about your things, people feel more able to talk to you. I think that's a nice thing, because people get help and don't feel so isolated.

Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.

Men need to laugh more.

Laughing is important. It's healing.

Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Nobody makes me laugh like my wife.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.