Quotes from Allen Klein

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.