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A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song but the man who is worthwhile is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Joy is your birthright.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.

True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline . . . too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with. . . something about yourself your career your spouse.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.

I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today my husband Larry and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Love . . . binds everything together in perfect harmony.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.