The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes … we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.