“The only real laughter comes from despair.”

“It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.”

“Laughter is eternity if joy is real.”

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”

“Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.”

“Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.”

“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”

“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”

“Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again”

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”