The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.