Jeff Kinney Quotes

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.

I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got to be others with similar tastes.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

I've told so many stories to so many friends of mine. I have friends in Pittsburgh, in West Virginia, and in Indy. That's three different demographics of people, and they all laughed, so I assumed that if I find something funny and all my friends find something funny, I hope people everywhere will find it funny.

I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.

I always say I want to leave this world in a better state than when I arrived, and I continue to live by that message. So I'm going to do what I can to make the world a better place but also just make sure that I'm happy as well.

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

I think I felt very alone for a lot of my life, but once I was able to share my story more and more, and people wouldn't say, 'Hey, I felt sorry for you,' but, 'I get it, and I understand you,' it kind of encouraged me to tell it more. I just don't want people to feel alone.

It's a great gift to be able to make people laugh.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

I'm just thankful that I continue to do therapy because it makes the world a better place.

I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.