"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
-- Samuel Butler

"Humor is the last stage of existential awareness before faith."

-- Kierkegaard

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

-- G.K. Cheserton

"Humor is the high road into and through transformation."

-- W. Brugh Joy

"Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of."

-- Tom Lehrer

"In the end, everything is a gag."

-- Charlie Chaplin