Laurence J. Peter Quotes

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone like Jim Carrey, and then he would get on stage fearlessly and tear the house down. That's something I always enjoyed. It also allowed me to not be terrified.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

Laughter always forgives.

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.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

I love people who make me laugh!

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.