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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.