Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.
There is nothing more precious than laughter
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
I think our main priority is to make people happy and try to take them out of all that for a second.
I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.
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 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.
Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.
I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.
We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.
My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.
The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
I don't know if I can change things but I just want to put smiles on the faces of the children. I cannot put into words how it makes me feel.
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
